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Ding Yunpeng
Ding Yunpeng (丁云鹏, 1547–after 1628) was a Chinese painter of the late Ming dynasty from Xiuning, Anhui, best known for Buddhist and Daoist figures and fine-line baimiao drawing.
Ding-A-Ling (robot)
Ding-A-Lings were a line of battery-powered toy robots produced by Topper Toys of Elizabeth, New Jersey, from 1971, which walked using a removable power pack; the 14-inch King Ding led the line.
Ding-Hua Hu
Ding-Hua Hu (胡定华, also romanized Hu Ting-hua; 1943–2019) was a Taiwanese electrical engineer who, as founding director of ITRI's ERSO in Hsinchu, led the 1976 RCA technology transfer that seeded Taiwan's IC industry.
Ding-Yuan Yang
Ding-Yuan Yang (楊丁元) is a Taiwanese electrical engineer and semiconductor executive who led ITRI's 1976 RCA integrated-circuit training group and founded Winbond Electronics in 1987, serving as its president until 1999.
Ding'an
Ding'an (定安國) was a small tenth-century state founded by Balhae remnants in the Yalu River basin after the Khitan destroyed Balhae; Liao destroyed it in 986.
Ding'an Shiwen Ji
Ding'an Shiwen Ji (定盦文集, Collected Works of Ding'an) is the collected prose and poetry of Qing thinker Gong Zizhen (1792–1841), first self-carved in 1823 and repeatedly expanded after his death.
Dingane
Dingane (uDingane kaSenzangakhona) was king of the Zulu from 1828 to 1840, who took the throne by having Shaka assassinated and was overthrown by Mpande after defeat at Blood River in 1838.
Dingane–Retief deed of cession
The Dingane–Retief deed of cession is an 1838 document in which Zulu king Dingane ceded land in Natal to Voortrekker leader Piet Retief, who was killed two days later.
Dingbat
A dingbat, also called a printer's ornament, is a decorative typographic symbol such as a star or pointing hand; digital symbol fonts like Wingdings are dingbat fonts.
Dingdang Kuaiyao (Dingdang Drug Delivery)
Dingdang Kuaiyao (叮当快药), now Dingdang Health Technology Group, is a Beijing digital pharmacy founded in 2014 that delivers medicines from its own pharmacies within 28 minutes, 24/7.
Dingdong Dantes
Dingdong Dantes (Jose Sixto Raphael Gonzalez Dantes III, born 1980) is a Filipino actor, host, and producer, GMA Network's Kapuso Primetime King, star of Marimar and Rewind, husband of Marian Rivera, and a Philippine Navy reservist.
Dingdong Xiaoqu
Dingdong Xiaoqu (叮咚小区) was a Shanghai community O2O app launched in March 2014 by Liang Changlin, offering delivery, forums, and local services to apartment compounds.
Dinghy
A dinghy, from the Hindi dingi, is a small open boat propelled by oars, motor, or sails, used for pleasure, racing, or ferrying people between ship and shore.
Dinginin power station
Dinginin power station is a two-unit, supercritical coal-fired power plant in Mariveles, Bataan, on Manila Bay; at about 1,336 MW it is the largest coal plant in the Philippines.
Dingiswayo
Dingiswayo, born Godongwana around 1770, was a paramount chief of the Mthethwa who united the coastal clans, pioneered the age-regiment system, and was the young Shaka's patron.
Dingji Coal Mine
Dingji Coal Mine (丁集煤矿) is an underground coal mine in Fengtai County, Huainan, Anhui, China, begun in 2004 and producing up to 6 million tonnes of coal per year.
Dingjing Decoction
定经汤 (Dingjing decoction), a Qing-dynasty TCM formula from Fu Qingzhu's Obstetrics and Gynecology for irregular menstruation from liver stagnation with kidney deficiency; eight herbs, decoction, now used for PCOS and intermenstrual bleeding.
Dingle
Dingle (Irish: An Daingean) is a port town in County Kerry, Ireland, the most westerly town in the country and the center of the Corca Dhuibhne Gaeltacht.
Dingle Sinus
Dingle Sinus is an 80 km wide IAU-named bay (sinus) on Titan, a flooded inlet connecting Punga Mare with Kraken Mare at 81.36N 336.44W, named after Dingle Bay in Ireland and crossed by Cassini's T124 bistatic radar track.
Dingley Act
The Dingley Act, formally the Tariff Act of 1897, was a US tariff law signed in 1897 that raised duties on most imports, peaking at 52.1 percent in 1899.
Dingnan Jiedushi
Dingnan Jiedushi (定难军节度使) was a hereditary military governorship headquartered at Xiazhou, governing the five prefectures of Yin, Xia, Sui, You, and Jing from the late Tang into the early Song.
Dingo
The dingo (Warrigal, Australian Native Dog) is a free-ranging canid found mainly in Australia, descended from domestic dogs that arrived from Southeast Asia several thousand years ago. It is Australia's largest mammalian carnivore.
Dingo ate my baby
Catchphrase from the 1980 death of Azaria Chamberlain, taken by a dingo at Uluru; her mother Lindy was wrongly convicted of murder in 1982 and exonerated by 2012.
Dingo Fence
Dingo Fence (Dog Fence, Wild Dog Barrier Fence): 5,614 km pest-exclusion fence from southeast Queensland to Fowlers Bay, South Australia, keeping dingoes out of sheep country; proposed 1948, completed late 1950s, with documented ecological effects.
Dingo Pictures
Dingo Pictures: German animation studio (founded 1992 as Media Concept by Ludwig Ickert and Roswitha Haas) making low-budget Disney mockbusters until 2005; source of the Yee meme. Distinct from the Melbourne production company of the same name.
Dingtai Drug Research
Dingtai Drug Research (鼎泰药研), formally Jiangsu Dingtai Drug Research (Group) Co., Ltd., is a Chinese preclinical contract research organization founded in Nanjing in 2008, ranked first in China's cardiometabolic non-clinical CRO market.
DingTalk
DingTalk (钉钉) is Alibaba Group's enterprise communication and collaboration platform, launched in January 2015, combining messaging, documents, meetings, and AI features, with 700 million users and over 26 million organizations.
Dingxi
Dingxi Shi (定西市, Dingxi City), called Longzhong, is a prefecture-level city in central Gansu, China, with Anding District and six counties. Known for the Majiayao culture, potato and medicinal herb farming, and a 2025 GDP of 793.9 billion yuan.
Dingxu
Dingxu, also known as Lan'an Dingxu, was a Chan Buddhist monk recorded as a dharma heir of Dahui Zonggao in the Yangqi line of the Linji school.
Dingzhou power station
Dingzhou power station (定州电厂), also known as the Guohua Dingzhou power plant, is a coal-fired power station in Kaiyuan Town, Dingzhou, Hebei, China, with four units totaling 2,520 MW.