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Dickie Moore (actor)
Dickie Moore (John Richard Moore Jr., 1925–2015), American child actor of The Beloved Rogue, Blonde Venus, Oliver Twist, and Our Gang; gave Shirley Temple her first screen kiss, then ran Dick Moore and Associates PR firm.
Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star
Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star is a 2003 Paramount comedy directed by Sam Weisman, starring David Spade as a washed-up 1970s child star who hires a family to relive his childhood, with real former child stars in cameos.
Dickinson (TV series)
Dickinson (2019–2021) is an Apple TV+ half-hour comedy-drama created by Alena Smith, starring Hailee Steinfeld as young Emily Dickinson; three seasons, 30 episodes, Peabody Award, intentional anachronism.
Dickinson College
Dickinson College, a private liberal-arts college in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, chartered 1783 and named for John and Mary Norris Dickinson; first U.S. college chartered after independence, test-optional since 1994, a leader in study abroad and sustainability.
Dickinson W. Richards
Dickinson W. Richards (1895–1973) was an American physiologist at Columbia University and Bellevue Hospital who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on heart catheterization.
Dickite
Dickite is a clay mineral of the kaolinite group, one of three natural polytypes alongside kaolinite and nacrite, named for Allan B. Dick, who described Welsh material in 1888.
Dicks (band)
The Dicks were an American hardcore punk band formed in 1980 in Austin, Texas, fronted by openly gay, Marxist singer Gary Floyd. Known for "Dicks Hate the Police," the albums Kill from the Heart (SST, 1983) and These People (1985), and blues-inflected queer punk.
Dickson nearfield
The Dickson nearfield, also called a regular nearfield, is a nearfield made by twisting the multiplication of a division ring, first constructed by Leonard Dickson in 1905.
Dickson Poon
Sir Dickson Poon (潘迪生) is a Hong Kong retail entrepreneur who founded Dickson Watch & Jewellery in 1980 and built Dickson Concepts into a luxury goods group.
Dicksonia antarctica
Dicksonia antarctica, the soft tree fern or man fern, is an Australian tree fern with a fibrous trunk up to 12 m tall, common in south-eastern Australia.
Dicksonia arborescens
Dicksonia arborescens, the St Helena tree fern, is a tree fern (Dicksoniaceae, Cyatheales) endemic to St Helena, dominating cloud forest at 700–823 m, up to 3 m tall, first described 1788, and the earliest tree fern moved abroad (UK, 1789).
Dicksonia sellowiana
Dicksonia sellowiana, known in Brazil as xaxim, is a tree fern ranging from southern Mexico to Brazil, harvested for its fibrous trunk used as orchid substrate.
Dicksoniaceae
Dicksoniaceae is a family of tree ferns in the order Cyatheales, containing the genera Dicksonia, Calochlaena, and Lophosoria, about 35 species growing in Central and South America, south-east Asia, Australasia, and the Pacific.
Dickster
Dickster (Dick Trevor) is the psytrance alias of British producer Richard Trevor, formerly of Green Nuns of the Revolution and active since the 1990s Goa trance scene.
Dicky Barrett
Dicky Barrett (Richard Michael Barrett, born 1964) is an American singer, frontman of Boston ska-core band the Mighty Mighty Bosstones ('The Impression That I Get'), later Jimmy Kimmel Live! announcer, and lead singer of the Defiant.
Dicky Eklund
Dicky Eklund (Richard Eklund Jr., born 1957), Lowell, Massachusetts welterweight boxer who fought Sugar Ray Leonard in 1978, trained half-brother Micky Ward to the 2000 WBU title, battled crack addiction, and was portrayed by Oscar winner Christian Bale in The Fighter (2010).
Dicle Tüneli
Dicle Tüneli (Tigris Tunnel, Birkleyn Caves): natural cave system in Lice, Diyarbakır, Turkey, where the Dibni Stream, a Tigris headwater, flows underground; five caves with Assyrian royal cuneiform inscriptions and reliefs of Tiglath-pileser and Shalmaneser III.
Diclobutrazol
Diclobutrazol (dicyclobutrazole, PP296), a triazole DMI fungicide first reported in 1979 by ICI, controlled mildews, rusts, and scab; discontinued and not EU-approved, with a 0.01 mg/kg default MRL.
Diclofenac
Diclofenac, a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug sold under names including Voltaren, was introduced in 1973 and is the most widely prescribed NSAID worldwide for arthritis, migraine, and musculoskeletal injuries.
Diclofop
Diclofop, a chiral aryloxyphenoxypropanoate herbicide sold as racemic diclofop-methyl (HOE 023408), inhibits ACCase to kill grass weeds in wheat and barley; EU approval runs to 31 January 2029.
Dicloran
Dicloran, also known as DCNA or Botran, is a substituted aniline fungicide used before and after harvest against Botrytis, Monilinia, and other fungal pathogens on fruits and vegetables.
Dicloxacillin
Dicloxacillin (BRL-1702, Diclocil, Dynapen) is an isoxazolyl, penicillinase-resistant oral penicillin approved by the FDA in 1968 for penicillinase-producing staphylococcal infections; highly protein-bound (97.9%), short half-life, CYP-inducing.
Dicofol
Dicofol (CAS 115-32-2), an organochlorine acaricide related to DDT, introduced 1955, used against mites on crops; banned globally under the Stockholm Convention Annex A in 2019.
DICOM
DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) is the global standard for exchanging and managing medical images and related data, developed from ACR-NEMA 300 (1985) and maintained by the DICOM Standards Committee as NEMA PS3 and ISO 12052.
Dicotyledon
Dicotyledon (dicot): flowering plant whose embryo has two cotyledons, with net-veined leaves, flower parts in fours or fives, ringed stem vascular bundles, and taproots; historically a class, now known to be paraphyletic, with eudicots forming two-thirds of flowering plants.
Dicotyledon flora of Montana
The dicotyledon flora of Montana, also known as the dicots of Montana, comprises the state's dicot flowering plants, first fully documented by Booth and Wright's 1959 Flora of Montana.
Dicoumarol
Dicoumarol, also known as dicumarol or bishydroxycoumarin, is a naturally occurring vitamin K antagonist isolated from spoiled sweet clover in 1939 and the parent compound of warfarin.
Dicranales
Dicranales, an order of true mosses in subclass Dicranidae, historically included many families now shown polyphyletic; recent phylogenomics restricts it to Dicranaceae, Calymperaceae, Fissidentaceae, and Octoblepharaceae.
Dicranella
Dicranella (forklet-mosses) is a moss genus in Dicranellaceae, type species D. heteromalla; molecular phylogenetics showed it polyphyletic, prompting a narrowed circumscription and new families and genera.
Dicranota
Dicranota (Zetterstedt, 1838) is a large genus of hairy-eyed crane flies (Pediciidae) with 256 species in 11 subgenera, aquatic larvae with five hooked proleg pairs, and a mainly Palaearctic and Nearctic distribution.