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Dinh Bo Linh

Dinh Bo Linh (Đinh Bộ Lĩnh, 924–979) was the Vietnamese emperor who reunified the country after the Anarchy of the Twelve Warlords, founding the Dinh dynasty.

Dinh Bo Linh's pacification of the Twelve Warlords

Dinh Bo Linh's pacification of the Twelve Warlords (Đinh Bộ Lĩnh dẹp 12 sứ quân) was the 967 campaign reunifying Vietnam, leading to the Dinh dynasty in 968.

Dinh Bo Linh's unification and proclamation as Dinh Tien Hoang

In 968, after defeating the twelve warlords who had divided northern Vietnam, Dinh Bo Linh proclaimed himself emperor as Dinh Tien Hoang, founding the state of Dai Co Viet.

Dinh dynasty administrative and penal reforms

The Dinh dynasty administrative and penal reforms were the measures by which Dinh Tien Hoang organized the state of Dai Co Viet after reunifying Vietnam in 968.

Dinh Khong

Dinh Khong (Định Không, 730–808) was a Vietnamese Zen monk of the Vinitaruci lineage who founded Quynh Lam temple and, by tradition, foretold the Ly dynasty.

Dinh Liet

Dinh Liet (Đinh Liệt, died 1471) was a founding merit official of the Early Le dynasty, a nephew of Le Loi who joined the Lam Son uprising against Ming rule.

Dinh Q. Lê (1968–April 2024) was a Vietnamese American multimedia artist known for photo weavings, photographic prints cut into strips and interlaced by hand, addressing the Vietnam War, memory, and trauma.

Sep 19, 2026

Dinhabah

Dinhabah is an Edomite city, named in Genesis 36 as the city of Bela son of Beor, the first of the early kings of Edom; its location is unknown.

Dini Schatzmann

Dini Schatzmann (Dini Azan Schatzmann), Malaysian actor born 1994 of Malay-Swiss heritage; known for Marry Me Senorita, The Hotel, Malbatt: Misi Bakara, and Blood Brothers; married to Janna Nick since 2023.

Dining philosophers problem

The dining philosophers problem is a classic concurrent programming example posed by Edsger W. Dijkstra in 1965, modeling shared resource allocation and illustrating deadlock and starvation.

Dining room

A dining room, also called a dining area, is a room in a home or hotel where meals are eaten, especially the major or more formal meals.

Dinis Dias

Dinis Dias was a Portuguese navigator in the service of Prince Henry the Navigator, who reached Cap-Vert, the westernmost point of Africa, in the 1440s.

Oct 20, 2026

Dinitramine

Dinitramine (Cobex, USB 3584), CAS 29091-05-2, is a dinitroaniline pre-emergence herbicide inhibiting microtubule assembly; cancelled in the US and not EU-approved, with soil half-lives of 10–150 days and high aquatic bioconcentration potential.

Dinitrobenzene

Dinitrobenzene is any of three isomers of benzene bearing two nitro groups, pale crystalline solids used chiefly in dye manufacture and known for causing methemoglobinemia.

Dinitrogen activation

Dinitrogen activation is the chemical process of weakening or cleaving the strong N≡N triple bond of N₂ so its nitrogen atoms form new bonds, most importantly reducing N₂ to ammonia for fertilizer.

Dinitrogen tetroxide

Dinitrogen tetroxide, also called nitrogen tetroxide or NTO, is a red-brown liquid oxidizer, boiling at 21.2 °C, used in the Titan II missile and the Apollo program.

Oct 21, 2026

Dinitrogenase reductase ADP-ribosyltransferase

Dinitrogenase reductase ADP-ribosyltransferase (DRAT, DraT, EC 2.4.2.37) is a 30 kDa bacterial enzyme that switches off nitrogenase by ADP-ribosylating Arg101 of the Fe protein, reversed by DraG; studied in Rhodospirillum rubrum and Azospirillum brasilense.

Dinjith Ayyathan

Dinjith Ayyathan (ദിൻജിത്ത് അയ്യത്താൻ), Malayalam film director from Thalassery, former animator; directed Kakshi: Amminipilla (2019), the cult slow-burn thriller Kishkindha Kaandam (2024), and ekō (2025).

Dink Pate

Dink Pate (born 2006) is an American basketball guard from Dallas who became the youngest US pro in history with G League Ignite at 17, played for Mexico City Capitanes, went undrafted in 2025, and signed with the New York Knicks.

Oct 21, 2026

Dink Templeton

Dink Templeton (Robert Lyman Templeton, 1897–1962), American Olympian at Antwerp 1920 in rugby (gold) and long jump (4th), also 1924 long jump, and Stanford track coach 1921–1939.

Dinka language

Dinka (Thuɔŋjäŋ) is a Western Nilotic, Nilo-Saharan language of South Sudan with dialect clusters Padang, Rek, Agar, and Bor, monosyllabic stems, and morphology carried by vowel length, voice quality, and tone.

Dinka people

Dinka people (self-name Jieng, Muonjang): Nilotic agro-pastoral people of the upper Nile in South Sudan, largest ethnic group, cattle-centered society and religion (Nhialic), prominent in Sudanese civil wars and the Kiir-Machar rivalry.

Oct 21, 2026

Dinka Settlement Complex

Dinka Settlement Complex (DSC): 60-hectare multiperiod archaeological site near Qaladze, Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, combining Qalat-i Dinka and Gird-i Bazar; major Iron Age settlement on the Neo-Assyrian Empire's eastern frontier, excavated since 2015 by the Peshdar Plain Project.

Dinkha IV

Dinkha IV, also known as Mar Dinkha IV, was Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East from 1976 to 2015 and the first patriarch chosen by election.

Sep 19, 2026

Dinkha Tepe

Dinkha Tepe is a Bronze and Iron Age archaeological mound on the Gadar river in the Ushnu valley of northwestern Iran, excavated in 1936 and the 1960s.

Dinko Šimunović

Dinko Šimunović (1873–1933) was a Croatian writer of the modernist Croatian Moderna, best known for psychological novellas such as Duga, Muljika, and Alkar set in rural Dalmatian Zagora.

Dinner

Dinner: the main meal of the day, usually in the evening but at midday in parts of Britain; from Old French disner, to break one's fast. Covers etymology, the drift from midday to evening, meal structure, hospitality, and modern solo-dining trends.

Dinner for One

Dinner for One (Der 90. Geburtstag), an 18-minute British comedy sketch by Lauri Wylie recorded by NDR in 1963 with Freddie Frinton and May Warden, has been Germany's fixed New Year's Eve TV tradition since 1972.

Dinner for Schmucks

Dinner for Schmucks is a 2010 American comedy directed by Jay Roach, starring Paul Rudd and Steve Carell, a remake of the French film Le Dîner de cons.