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Die verbotene stadt

Die verbotene stadt (The Forbidden City) is a 1992 Ravensburger bluffing board game by Alex Randolph and Johann Rüttinger for 2–4 players, on the 1992 Spiel des Jahres recommended list.

Die Vlakte

"Die Vlakte" ("The plain") is a 1906 Afrikaans poem by Jan F.E. Celliers that, with Marais' "Winternag", stands at the beginning of the conscious literary tradition in Afrikaans.

Die Vrou en ander Verse

Die Vrou en ander Verse (The Woman and Other Verses) is a 1945 poetry collection by the South African poet Elisabeth Eybers, her third Afrikaans collection.

Die Walküre

Die Walküre, Wagner's 1870 three-act music drama, is the second opera of Der Ring des Nibelungen; its incestuous twins Siegmund and Sieglinde, Wotan's defying daughter Brünnhilde, and the Ride of the Valkyries make it the most performed Ring opera.

Die Wand

Die Wand (The Wall) is a 2012 Austrian-German drama directed by Julian Roman Pölsler, adapted from Marlen Haushofer's 1963 novel, starring Martina Gedeck as a woman trapped behind an invisible wall in the Alps, screened at Berlinale Panorama 2012.

Die Wandlung

Die Wandlung (The Transformation) was a monthly cultural and political journal published in Heidelberg from 1945 to 1949, edited by Dolf Sternberger with Karl Jaspers, Werner Krauss, and Alfred Weber.

Die Weißen Blätter

Die Weißen Blätter, German for "The White Sheets," was a German-language literary monthly published from 1913 to 1921 and a leading journal of Expressionism and wartime pacifist opposition.

Die Welt ist schön

Die Welt ist schön (The World Is Beautiful) is a 1928 photobook by the German photographer Albert Renger-Patzsch, collecting 100 black-and-white photographs and defining New Objectivity photography in Weimar Germany.

Die Weltbühne

Die Weltbühne ("The World Stage") was a German weekly journal of politics, culture, and economics, published in Berlin from 1918 to 1933 and edited by Carl von Ossietzky.

Die with a Smile

Die with a Smile: 2024 soft rock duet ballad by Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars, Interscope; five non-consecutive weeks at Hot 100 No. 1, fastest to one billion Spotify streams, later on Mayhem.

Die wunderbaren Jahre

Die wunderbaren Jahre is a 1976 prose collection by Reiner Kunze depicting everyday repression of young people in East Germany; banned there, it topped the West German bestseller list.

Die Ysterkoei Moet Sweet

Die Ysterkoei Moet Sweet (The iron cow must sweat) is the 1964 debut poetry collection of South African writer and painter Breyten Breytenbach, published by Perskor.

Die-to-Die Interconnect

A die-to-die interconnect is the electrical interface and protocol stack carrying data between semiconductor dies in one package, typically on a silicon interposer or bridge.

Die, My Love

Die, My Love (Matate, amor, 2012) is Ariana Harwicz's debut novel about an unnamed woman in rural France undone by marriage and motherhood; longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize and adapted into Lynne Ramsay's 2025 Cannes film starring Jennifer Lawrence.

Diebold Nixdorf

Diebold Nixdorf is an American financial and retail technology company in North Canton, Ohio, producing ATMs, point-of-sale systems, and self-checkout hardware for banks and retailers.

Diede van Oorschot

Diede van Oorschot (born 2003) is a Dutch short track speed skater, 2020 Youth Olympic mixed relay gold medallist, European 3,000 m relay champion (2024, 2026) and 2025 world relay bronze medallist.

Diedel

Diedel (die, CG11501) is a 12 kDa secreted cytokine of Drosophila melanogaster that suppresses the IMD immune pathway, inhibits apoptosis during intestinal aging, and has homologs acquired by lepidopteran-infecting DNA viruses (virokines).

Diederick E. Grobbee

Diederick E. Grobbee, also published as D. E. Grobbee, is a Dutch clinical epidemiologist who founded Utrecht's Julius Center and led the DREAM aneurysm trial.

Diederik Korteweg

Diederik Johannes Korteweg (1848–1941) was a Dutch mathematician and professor at the University of Amsterdam, known for the Korteweg–de Vries equation describing waves in shallow water.

Diederik S. Wiersma

Diederik S. Wiersma, also known as D. S. Wiersma, is a Dutch experimental physicist working on disordered photonics and random lasers, and professor at the University of Florence.

Diederik Simon

Diederik Rudolf Simon, Dutch rower born 1970 in Bloemendaal: five Olympics 1996-2012, gold in the 1996 men's eight, two silvers, then 2025 World Rowing Coach of the Year.

Diederik van de Beek

Diederik van de Beek (born 1974) is a Dutch neurologist and professor of neurological infectious diseases at Amsterdam UMC, best known for the 2002 dexamethasone trial in bacterial meningitis.

Diederik van Weel

Diederik David van Weel (born 1973, Baarn) is a Dutch field hockey defender, 27 caps, who won men's Olympic gold with the Netherlands at Sydney 2000 and later coached hdm women's first team.

Diedrich Bader

Diedrich Bader (Karl Diedrich Bader, born 1966) is an American actor and voice actor, known as Oswald on The Drew Carey Show, Lawrence in Office Space, Rex in Napoleon Dynamite, and Batman in Batman: The Brave and the Bold and Harley Quinn.

Diefenbunker

The Diefenbunker, also known as CFS Carp, is a four-storey underground Cold War bunker in Carp, Ontario, built 1959 to 1961 and now Canada's Cold War Museum.

Dieffenbacher

Dieffenbacher, formally DIEFFENBACHER GmbH Maschinen- und Anlagenbau, is a German family-owned company in Eppingen, Baden-Württemberg, founded in 1873 by Jakob Dieffenbacher, which builds press systems and complete plants for wood-based panels, forming, recycling, and energy.

Dieffenbachia

Dieffenbachia (dumb cane) is a genus of about 57 Araceae herbs native from Mexico to tropical America, grown as variegated houseplants; all parts contain calcium oxalate raphides and proteolytic enzymes causing painful swelling and temporary loss of speech.

Diegesis (διήγησις)

Diegesis (διήγησις), Greek for narration: in Plato's Republic the mode of telling versus mimesis (showing); in Genette and film studies, the storyworld, with diegetic versus extradiegetic elements such as music.

Diego

Diego (Portuguese Diogo, Catalan Dídac) is a common Spanish masculine given name of disputed origin, from Latin Didacus (Greek didakhē, "teaching") or a contraction of Santiago; borne by 157,540 Spaniards in 2025 and the namesake of San Diego, California, via Didacus of Alcalá.

Diego (footballer, born 1985)

Diego Ribas da Cunha, known as Diego, is a Brazilian former attacking midfielder who led Santos to the 2002 Brazilian title and starred for Werder Bremen.