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Dingling The Dingling/Gaoche/Chile/Tiele (丁零/高車/敕勒/铁勒) peoples were an ancient Siberian people. They originally dwelled in the area west of modern day Lake Baikal at the bank of Lena River and were already around during the time of the Xiongnu Empire.
Dingman's Ferry Bridge The Dingman's Ferry Bridge is the last privately owned toll bridge on the Delaware River and one of the last few in the United States. It is owned and operated by the Dingmans Choice and Delaware Bridge Company.
Dingnan Jiedushi The "Jiedushi of Dingnan" (定難節度使) was Li Jiqian of 10th and 11th century China. He was awarded the position of military governor (jiedushi) of Dingnan, and King of Xiping by Emperor Zhenzong of Song China.
Dingo (band) Dingo is a Finnish rock band formed around 1982 which fused Finnish melancholy with catchy rock melodies, headed by the charismatic singer Pertti Neumann (also known as Pertti Nieminen). Dingo's hit number one was called Autiotalo, which soon became very popular.
Dingo (film) Dingo is a 1991 Australian film that traces the pilgrimage of John Anderson, an average guy with a passion for jazz, from his home in outback Western Australia to the jazz clubs of Paris, to meet his idol, jazz trumpeter Billy Cross.
Dingo Bar The Dingo American Bar and Restaurant at 10 rue Delambre in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France opened its doors in 1923. Most commonly referred to as the Dingo Bar, it was one of the few drinking establishments at the time that was open all night.
Dingo Fence The Dingo Fence or Dog Fence is a barrier that was built in Australia during the 1880s and finished in 1885, to keep dingos out of the relatively fertile south-east part of the continent (where they had largely been exterminated) and protect the sheep flocks of southern Queensland. It is one of the longest structures on the planet, and the world's longest fence.
Dinguiraye Dinguiraye is a small town in Upper Guinea, known for its large mosque which until recently was thatched. The town is also home to an important Islamic group founded by El Hadj Omar Tall in the nineteenth century.
Dingus McDuck Dingus McDuck, nicknamed "Dirty Dingus", is a fictional character of the Scrooge McDuck universe, created by Don Rosa for the Duck Family Tree which accompanied his story cycle The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck. The Family Tree was first printed in Norway in 1993.
Dingwall Pursuivant Dingwall Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary is the title of a Scottish officer of arms. The office is currently vacant, as the reduction in the number of pursuivants in the Court of the Lord Lyon from six to three in the late nineteenth century means only three titles are in use at any one time.
Dingwalls Dingwall's is a venue adjacent to Camden Lock in London, England. It houses bars, cafes, clubs (including the Jongleurs comedy club and the Lock 17 bar/restaurant), and it is one of the city's best known live music venues.
Dinheirosaurus Dinheirosaurus (Porto Dinheiro reptile) is a genus of diplodocid sauropod dinosaur hailing from the upper section of the Late Jurassic strata of the Camadas de Alcobaça Formation located in central-western Portugal at Porto Dinheiro, Lourinhã.
Dini Exams Dini Exams refers to a set of exams that evaluate students and scholars knowledge about Islam. The exam can be written in both Iran and Saudi Arabia, and unlike many other religious exam it does not involve questions outside of Koran.
Dini test In mathematics, the Dini and Dini-Lipschitz tests are highly precise tests that can be used to prove that the Fourier series of a function converges at a given point. These tests are named after Ulisse Dini and Rudolf Lipschitz.
Dinicu Golescu Dinicu Golescu (usual rendition of Constantin Radovici Golescu; February 7, 1777 – October 5, 1830), a member of the Golescu family of boyars, was a Wallachian Romanian man of letters, mostly noted for his travel writings and journalism.
Dinilysia Dinilysia patagonica is an extinct species of snake from the Late Cretaceous (Coniacian) of South America. The BBC website confirms Dinilysia as appearing in the last episode of the famous 1999 documentary series Walking With Dinosaurs as the snake encountered by two infant Tyrannosaurus, although the creature depicted is a modern day python and the episode in question is set in North America.
Dining car A dining car (British English: restaurant car) or diner (but not "diner car," except in uninformed parlance) is a railroad passenger car that serves meals on a train in the manner of a full-service, sit-down restaurant. It is distinct from other types of railroad food service cars that do not duplicate the full-service restaurant experience, principally cars of various types in which one purchases food from a walk-up counter to be consumed either within the car or elsewhere in the train.
Dining Downunder Dining Downunder is an Australian cooking show hosted by celebrity chefs – Vic Cherikoff (Executive Producer and show host), Benjamin Christie and Mark McCluskey. The series is an up-market, up-beat look at the modern authentic Australian cuisine now featured in restaurants run by the more creative Australian chefs (not just the PR chef you might hear or read about).
Dining philosophers problem In computer science, the dining philosophers problem is an illustrative example of a common computing problem in concurrency. It is a classic multi-process synchronization problem, and is included in nearly all college-level computer science curricula.
Dinitrogen pentoxide Dinitrogen pentoxide is the binary nitrogen oxide N2O5, also known as nitrogen pentoxide. This unstable and potentially dangerous oxidizer was once of interest as a reagent for nitrations but it has largely been superseded by NO2BF4, which is more stable and effects the same reactions.
Dink (band) Dink, also written DINK, was an Alt-Industrial band formed in Kent, Ohio in 1992. The band was unique for its mixture of elements of industrial, hip-hop (rapped vocals and extensive use of samples), hard rock, and pop.
Dink, the Little Dinosaur Dink, the Little Dinosaur (1989–1991) was an animated children's series. Riding the wave of cartoon dino-mania brought on by Don Bluth’s The Land Before Time, Ruby-Spears produced its own team of little dinos.
Dinka The Dinka are a group of tribes of south Sudan, inhabiting the swamplands of the Bahr el Ghazal region of the Nile basin, Jonglei and parts of southern Kordufan and Upper Nile regions. They are mainly pastoral people, relying on cattle herding at riverside camps in the dry season and growing millet (Anyanjang) in fixed settlements during the rainy season.
Dinka language The Dinka language, or Thuɔŋjäŋ as it is known in the language itself, is a Nilo-Saharan language spoken by the Dinka, one of the largest and most powerful ethnic groups in Southern Sudan. With 2-3 million speakers, it exists in five major dialect divisions.
Dinkie Dino Dinkie Dino (English/American version, also called Dinky Dino) or Rakuraku Dinokun(Japanese Version) is a sort of Digital pet (Tamagotchi) featuring a Dinosaur (or Dino) pet. The animations are very basic but charming and it has a total of 10 functions.
Dinko Ranjina Dinko Ranjina (Domenico Ragnina; born 1536 in Ragusa - died 1607 in Ragusa) was a poet in Croatian and Italian languages from the Republic of Ragusa. In 1556 he was accepted into the Republic's ruling Grand Council.
Dinky Island Dinky Island is a small island believed to be the hiding-place of the legendary treasure of Big Whoop in the Monkey Island series of adventure-games. It is a small tropical island inhabited by Herman Toothrot in MI2 who has started to teach philosophy on the beach.
Dinky Toy Dinky Toys are die-cast miniature model cars and trucks. They first appeared in early 1934 when Meccano Ltd of Liverpool, England introduced a new line of "modelled miniatures" under the trade mark "Meccano Dinky Toys".
Dinkytown, Minneapolis, Minnesota Dinkytown, USA (more commonly known just as Dinkytown) is an area within the Marcy Holmes neighborhood in Minneapolis, Minnesota consisting of several square blocks occupied by various small businesses, restaurants, food courts, bars, and the like, and apartment buildings mostly housing university students. Dinkytown is adjacent to the north side of the University of Minnesota campus.
Dinmukhamed Kunayev Dinmukhamed Akhmedovich Kunayev (; ), born in Verny, now Almaty, died 22 August 1993, was a Kazakh Soviet Communist political figure.Vronskaya, Jeanne (August 24, 1993) "Obituary: Dinmukhamed Kunayev" The Independent London, Gazette Section p.
Dinner for Five Dinner for Five is a television program in which actor/filmmaker Jon Favreau (Swingers, Made) and a revolving guest list of celebrities eat, drink and talk about life on and off the set and swap stories about projects past and present. The program seats screen legends next to a variety of personalities from film, television, music and comedy, resulting in an unpredictable free-for-all.
Dinner Plain, Victoria Dinner Plain is a town in Victoria, Australia, located on the Great Alpine Road, 10 kilometres from Mount Hotham Alpine Resort, and 375 kilometres from Melbourne. It has a permanent population of approximately 50, yet has over 200 lodges and chalets for tourist accommodation.
Dinner theater Dinner theater is a form of entertainment that combines a restaurant meal with a staged play. Sometimes the play is incidental entertainment secondary to the meal, in the style of a night club, or the play may be a major production.
Dinner Time Dinner Time (1928) is a animated short subject produced and directed by Paul Terry and co-directed by John Foster. The film is part of a series entitled Aesop's Film Fables and features the Terry creation Farmer Al Falfa who works as a butcher, fending off a group of pesky dogs.
Dinners Ready Dinners Ready Was founded by Scott Farrar and is a meal preparation franchise based in Mukilteo, Washington. The company is part of a growing trend in the food industry, often referred to as Meal Assembly, where customers can attend a local meal preparation kitchen and assemble meals for freezing and cooking at home.
Dinnington Dinnington is a town in rural South Yorkshire, England, and part of the metropolitan borough of Rotherham. It is roughly equidistant from Rotherham, Sheffield and Worksop, and is located at approximately , at an elevation of about 100 metres above sea level.
Dinnington Comprehensive School Dinnington Comprehensive School is a secondary school in Dinnington, South Yorkshire, England. It is a coeducational comprehensive school for day pupils between the ages of 11 and 18, and takes in approximately 1500 pupils from Dinnington and surrounding settlements (chiefly Anston, Laughton Common, Laughton-en-le-Morthen, Woodsetts, Gildingwells, Letwell and Firbeck).
Dinniyeh Dinniyeh is a region in Lebanon which lies east of Tripoli, extends north as far as Akkar, south to Besharri and Zghorta and as far east as Baalbek and Hermel. Dinniyeh has excellent ecological environment filled with woodlands, orchards and groves.
Dinny McGinley Dinny McGinley (Irish: Donnchadh Mac Fhionghaile) (born 27 April, 1945) is an Irish Fine Gael politician. He is a Teachta Dála (TD) for Donegal South West and is currently the Fine Gael Spokesperson for Community, Rural & Gaeltacht Affairs.
Dino 7 Cordas Horondino José da Silva (31 October 1946, Marília, São Paulo – 26 May2006, Rio de Janeiro), best known as Dino Sete Cordas ("Seven-String Dino"), was a Brazilian guitar player renowned as the greatest influence in seven-string guitar, a musical instrument in which he developed his own language and techniques, and one of the greatest choro instrumentalists ever.
Dino Andrade Dino Andrade is an American voice actor, screenwriter and film director. He was the husband of Mary Kay Bergman, who provided the female voices of most of the female characters in the South Park cartoon series.
Dino Boy in the Lost Valley Dino Boy in the Lost Valley was an animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. It first aired on CBS September 10, 1966 as a part of Space Ghost and Dino Boy and ended on September 7, 1968.
Dino Buzzati Dino Buzzati Traverso (October 16, 1906 - January 28, 1972) was an Italian novelist, short story writer, painter and poet, as well as a journalist for Corriere della Sera. His worldwide fame is mostly due to his novel Il deserto dei Tartari, translated into English as The Tartar Steppe.
Dino Cellini Dino Cellini, one of Meyer Lansky's top Lieutenants, ran casinos for Meyer Lansky in Havana Cuba during the late Nineteen Fifties & early Sixties. He later ran casinos in the Bahamas, followed by managing England's Colony Club casino with George Raft.
Dino Ciccarelli Dino Ciccarelli (born February 8, 1960 in Sarnia, Ontario) is a Canadian former professional hockey player who played 19 seasons in the National Hockey League, primarily with the Minnesota North Stars. He scored 1,200 points in his NHL career, and is the North Stars' all-time leader in that statistic.
Dino Crisis (video game) Dino Crisis is a survival horror game created by Capcom that was released in 1999. The controls, movement and gameplay is very distinct Resident Evil style, but unlike Resident Evil, Dino Crisis uses a 3D playfield rather than prerendered backdrops.
Dino Crisis 3 Dino Crisis 3 is a survival horror game for the Xbox. Like the previous iterations of the Dino Crisis series, gameplay revolves around fighting dinosaurs; unlike previous iterations, the action now takes place in outer space, on a man-made station whose layout is continually changing.
Dino De Laurentiis Agostino De Laurentiis, usually credited as Dino De Laurentiis, (born August 8, 1919) is an Italian movie producer born at Torre Annunziata in the province of Naples. He grew up selling spaghetti produced by his father.
Dino Dini Dino Dini (born June 5 1965) is a musician, singer and songwriter who happens to also be a computer game developer specializing in football games, which is the field he is most known for. Dini is most noted for being the creator of two extremely successful sports game brands: Kick Off and Player Manager.
Dino Ebel Dino Ebel (born March 20, 1966 in Barstow, California) is a former minor league baseball player and manager for the Los Angeles Dodgers who is currently the third base coach for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
Dino Entertainment Dino Entertainment was a firm specializing in the Compilation market of the late 1980s and early 1990s, releasing record such as the Hardcore Uproar and Energy Rush range of CDs and in competition with Telstar Records, Stylus and K-Tel.
Dino Kraspedon Dino Kraspedon was the pen name of Brazilian Aladino Felix, convicted political terrorist, who in 1959 published My Contact with Flying Saucers, a book that told a story very much in the vein of classic USA contactee George Adamski. Felix, or Kraspedon, claimed that in 1952 (the same year as Adamski's alleged contact with Orthon, a completely human "Space Brother" from Venus), he had seen a saucer land in the woods near Paraná, Brazil, and spoken with the completely human space-alien pilot, who later came to Felix's home and had a long, pleasant chat- the substance of which, as related by Felix, was similar to the Theosophical wisdom from Adamski's Space Brothers.
Dino Merlin Edin Dervišhalidović (born 12 September 1962 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFRY), stage name Dino Merlin, is a Bosnian singer-songwriter and musician. He is one of the most famous singer/songwriters in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and also popular in other countries of former Yugoslavia.
Dino Parenti Dino Parenti (born 1947) is the author of Tuscan Son: A Journey of Discovery of an Italian-American Family Ancestry, (ISBN 0-9787382-0-9) published in 2006. It is the account of his 43-year odyssey from a small farm town in Indiana to a small farm town in Carraia, Italy where he discovered over 23 generations of his paternal great-grandfathers and their histories.
Dino Rossi Dino Rossi (born October 15, 1959 in Seattle, Washington, USA) is a former Washington State Senator and Republican nominee for Governor of Washington in the 2004 election, one of the closest elections in state history. Currently, he is working in real estate and promoting his book Dino Rossi: Lessons in Leadership, Business, Politics and Life*.
Dino Shafeek Dino Shafeek (also known as Dino Shaffer) (born 1929 in Dacca, East Bengal, British India; died March 10, 1984) was a Bangladeshi actor. He was probably best known for the part of 'Char Wallah Muhammed' in the BBC sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum, though he also appeared as a regular in the sitcom Mind Your Language.
Dino Stalker Dino Stalker (Gun Survivor 3: Dino Crisis in Japan) is a PlayStation 2 game by Capcom, and part of the Dino Crisis series of video games. Though it can be played by other means, a light gun is recommended, as the game is one in a number of Capcom games that try to bridge the gap between light gun games and traditional games that allow the player greater range of control over their movements in the game.
Dino Stamatopoulos Dino Stamatopoulos is a television comedy writer, actor and producer who has worked on Mr. Show, TV Funhouse, Mad TV, Moral Orel, The Dana Carvey Show, Late Night with David Letterman, and Late Night with Conan O'Brien.
Dino Zonic Maestro Edin Dino Zonic was born and raised in Sarajevo, in the area known as Bosnia and Herzegovina. But the Sarajevo of Zonic's youth, once hailed as one of the world's most beautiful cities (the Jerusalem of Europe), would not remain so.
Dinocerata Dinocerata, the so called "terrible horned" (dinocerata means terrible horn) mammals, are an extinct order of plant-eating, rhinoceros-like hoofed creatures famous for their paired horns and tusk-like canine teeth. The earliest dinoceratan, Prodinoceras, first appeared in Asia during the Paleocene, but nearly all later types are from North America (dinoceratans must have crossed the Bering land bridge, it may have been exposed during the Paleocene-Eocene times).
Dinoco Dinoco is a fictional gas station company used in Pixar animation films; it has been mentioned in Toy Story and in Cars. It has a name similar to the name of Amoco or Sunoco (and possibly Conoco while using the dinosaur of Sinclair, though while Sinclair's logo is a green sauropod, Dinoco's is a blue Tyrannosaurus).
Dinocyst Dinocysts are produced by around 10% of living Dinoflagellates as a dormant zygotic stage of their lifecycle. The next-generation Dinoflagellate exits the cyst (excysts) via the archaeopyle, a hole which may take the form of the removal of the apex of the cyst (apical archaeopyle), or the removal of one of the tabulæ (Precingular archæpyle).
DinoCroc DinoCroc is a 2004 horror film, starring Charles Napier and Joanna Pacula about a prehistoric carnivore, Sarcosuchus imperator. It is resurrected in a genetics laboratory after being mixed with a modern day crocodile, resulting in a hybrid monstrosity that has a lot in common with the Spinosaurus.
Dinodon septentrionalis White-banded Wolf Snake, Northern Large-toothed Snake Dinodon septentrionalis (Dinodon: Greek for terrible teeth, septentrionalis: Latin for seven plow oxen, (indicating the seven stars of Ursa Major or Minor) and is an obsolete word in English meaning Northern ) is a species of snake.
Dinofelis Dinofelis ("terrible cat") is a genus of machairodontin saber-toothed cats belong to the tribe Metailurini that lived in Europe, Asia, Africa and North America approximately 5-1.2 million years ago (most of which would have been in the Pliocene).
Dinoflagellate The dinoflagellates are a large group of flagellate protists. Most are marine plankton, but they are common in fresh water habitats as well; their populations are distributed depending on temperature, salinity, or depth.
Dinomyidae The family Dinomyidae was once a very successful group of South American hystricognath rodent, but now contains only a single living species, the Pacarana. The Dinomyidae included among its ranks the largest rodent ever known, the bison-sized Phoberomys pattersoni.
DinoPark Tycoon DinoPark Tycoon is an educational simulation strategy computer game released by MECC in 1993, and it was widely used throughout many public schools and institues in North America. One of the most original "business" games made, DinoPark Tycoon is both a strategy and managing game.
Dinorwic Quarry The Dinorwic Slate Quarry is a large slate quarry located between the town of Llanberis and the village of Dinorwig in north Wales. It was the second largest slate quarry in Wales, indeed in the world, after the neighbouring Penrhyn Quarry.
Dinorwig Power Station Dinorwig power station is a 1728 MW pumped storage hydroelectric scheme, near Dinorwig, in the Pass of Llanberis on the edge of the Snowdonia national park in north Wales. It is comprised of 16 km of tunnels, 1 million tons of concrete, 200,000 tons of cement and 4,500 tons of steel.
Dinosaur Dinosaurs were vertebrate animals that dominated terrestrial ecosystems for over 160 million years, first appearing approximately 230 million years ago. At the end of the Cretaceous Period, approximately 65 million years ago, a catastrophic extinction event ended dinosaurs' dominance on land.
Dinosaur (film) Dinosaur is a feature film produced by Walt Disney Pictures, and released to movie theatres in 2000. It combines the use of live-action backgrounds with computer animation of prehistoric creatures, notably the titular dinosaurs, done by a special CGI unit that predated the creation of Disney's Secret Lab computer-generated imagery department.
Dinosaur classification Dinosaur classification began in 1842 when Sir Richard Owen placed Iguanodon, Megalosaurus, and Hylaeosaurus in "a distinct tribe or suborder of Saurian Reptiles, for which I would propose the name of Dinosauria." In 1887 and 1888, Harry Seeley divided dinosaurs into the two orders Saurischia and Ornithischia, based on their hip structure.
Dinosaur Cove Dinosaur Cove, in Victoria, Australia is a major fossil-bearing site in south-east Australia, where the Otway Ranges meet the sea to the west of Cape Otway, adjacent to Otway National Park (map). The inaccessible ocean-front cliffs include fossil-bearing strata that date about 106 million years ago (MYA).
Dinosaur Gardens Prehistorical Zoo Dinosaur Gardens Prehistorical Zoo is an offbeat tourist attraction located in Ossineke, Michigan. Built on a forty acre tract of drained swampland, visitors to the “zoo” encounter several dozen homemade sculptures of dinosaurs, prehistoric birds, prehistoric mammals, and cavemen, many of which are arranged into action-packed (and often violent) tableaus.
Dinosaur in a Haystack Dinosaur in a Haystack, subtitled Reflections in Natural History, is a collection of essays on evolution by science writer Stephen Jay Gould most of which originally appeared in Natural History. Published by Harmony Books: 1995 (ISBN 0-517-88824-6)
Dinosaur Island Dinosaur Island is a mysterious island located in the South Pacific in the DC Comics universe. The island first appeared in Star-Spangled War Stories #90, which was cover dated April-May 1960, and was the creation of Robert Kanigher, Ross Andru, and Mike Esposito.
Dinosaur Jr Dinosaur Jr are an American alternative rock band. Their songs, while typically melodic, are performed at extremely high volumes, saturated with guitar noise and distortion, and frequently punctuated by J Mascis's fluent guitar solos.
Dinosaur King is a card game from Sega that uses the same gamplay mechanics from Mushiking and uses dinosaurs instead of beetles. The game was revealed in JAMMA 2005 and is already released in both Japanese and English versions.
Dinosaur Neil Dinosaur Neil is a character from The Tick animated series voiced by Danny Mann. He is a near middle-aged man with a thick moustache who works at a dinosaur park, apparently as a mascot; however, he is in actuality a paleontologist, thus working twofold with dinosaurs.
Dinosaur Park Dinosaur Park is a science-fiction novel by Hayford Peirce first published by Tor in 1989 under the title The Thirteenth Majestral and republished as Dinosaur Park in 1994. The nondescript cover of the original book had no relation to the story.
Dinosaur Park (Rapid City) The Dinosaur Park in Rapid City, South Dakota, United States, was dedicated on May 22 1936. Being an elaborate example of roadside tourist sculpture, it contains seven dinosaur sculptures on a hill overlooking the city to capitalize on the then new tourists coming to the Black Hills to see Mount Rushmore.
Dinosaur Sounds Dinosaur Sounds represents Catch 22 finally growing out from under the shadow of former frontman Tomas Kalnoky. The album is a radical departure from previous work; while the band maintains its trademark aggression and inquisitive nature, the topics have steered back to rock and roll staples like relationship woes and alcohol, occasionally dabbling into the dark themes that made the band so distinctive compared to its ska contemporaries.
Dinosaur-bird connection The current scientific consensus holds that birds evolved from theropod dinosaurs. Using the strict phylogenetic definition of a clade as all descendants of a single last common ancestor, modern birds are dinosaurs and dinosaurs are, therefore, not extinct.
Dinosaurs For Hire Dinosaurs For Hire is a Sega Genesis game where dinosaurs exist in the 20th Century and are ready for hire as mercenaries. They must use their skills and expertise to perform risky missions for the people that hired them.
Dinosaurs of the Isle of Wight The Isle of Wight is one of the richest dinosaur localities in Europe, with over 20 species of dinosaur having been recognised from the early Cretaceous Period (in particular between 132 and 110 million years ago), some of which were first identified on the island, as well as the contemporary non-dinosaurian species of crocodile, turtle and pterosaur.
Dinowarz This is a game of combat between giant mechanized dinosaurs named robosaurs in a faraway solar system named Spondylus. Mad robosaurs have overrun the planets of this man-made solar system and it is up to Professor Proteus to take the controls of the #1 robosaur, the Cyborasaurus.
Dinsdale railway station Dinsdale railway station serves the village of Middleton St George in the borough of Darlington and the ceremonial county of County Durham. It is located on the Tees Valley Line and is operated by Northern Rail who provide all passenger train services.
Dinsenchas The Dinsenchas (various spellings) is onomastic literature from medieval Ireland and consists of relatively short poems which describe how places in around the country were named. The word means literally "place lore.
Dinting Dinting is a district of Glossop in Derbyshire, England. It is notable for the massive structure of the Dinting Arches, part of the Glossop Line which goes as far as Manchester Piccadilly railway station, and also for Dinting Railway Museum,(Bahamas Locomotive Society) which closed in 1991.
Dinton Castle Dinton Castle (also known as Dinton Folly) is located just north of the village of Dinton, in Buckinghamshire and was built as an eyecatcher from Dinton Hall by Sir John Vanhattem in 1769. He used the castle to store his collection of fossils in the limestone walls.
Dinton, Buckinghamshire Dinton is a village in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located in the very south of the Aylesbury Vale on the ancient turnpike leading from Aylesbury to Thame (although this road has since been diverted away from the village).
Dinty W. Moore Dinty W. Moore (August 11, 1955-) is an American essayist, and author of both fiction and non fiction books, including his most widely known, The Accidental Buddhist: Mindfulness, Meditation, and Sitting Still (Algonquin Books).
Dinu Pescariu Dinu Mihai Pescariu (born April 12, 1974 in Bucharest) is a former tennis player from Romania, who turned professional in 1991. The righthander represented his native country at two Summer Olympics: in Barcelona (1992) and in Atlanta (1996).
Dinuguan Dinuguan is a popular Filipino dish also known as pork blood stew, "chocolate meat", or "chocolate pudding". It is a savory stew of blood sausage and offal simmered in a rich, spicy gravy of pig blood, garlic, chili and vinegar.
Diocesan Boys' School Diocesan Boys' School (DBS, 拔萃男書院) is a boys' secondary school located at 131 Argyle Street, Mongkok, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It was founded in 1869, making it one of the oldest secondary schools in Hong Kong.
Diocesan College The Diocesan College, or Bishops as it is more commonly known, is a private, all-boys school situated in the leafy suburb of Rondebosch in Cape Town, South Africa. It consists of three schools: the College for grades 8 – 12 and post matric (an optional year following grade 12 which covers the A-levels); the Preparatory School for grades 4 – 7 and the Pre-Preparatory School for Pre-Kindergarten – grade 3.
Diocesan College (Definition) A Diocesan College usually refers to a secondary level academic institution, usually an all-boys school, governed by the Roman Catholic Bishop of a diocese. Diocesan Colleges were built primarily as junior seminaries to train young main for the Roman Catholic priesthood.
Diocesan chancery A diocesan chancery is the branch of administration which handles all written documents used in the official government of a Catholic diocese. It is in the diocesan chancery that, under the direction of the bishop or his representative, all documents which concern the diocese are drawn up, copied, forwarded, and a record kept of all official writings expedited or received.
Diocesan Theological Institute The Diocesan Theological Institute was an Anglican seminary founded by John Strachan in Cobourg, Ontario on 10 January1842. In 1852 the Institute was succeeded by the Faculty of Divinity of the University of Trinity College, Toronto.

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