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Dixie Lee
Dixie Lee, born Wilma Winifred Wyatt, was an American actress, dancer, and singer in early Fox musical films and the first wife of Bing Crosby.
Dixie Mafia
Dixie Mafia: a loose confederation of white Southern criminals active from the 1960s, based in Biloxi, Mississippi, with no formal hierarchy or ties to La Cosa Nostra; known for Gulf Coast corruption and the 1987 Sherry murders.
Dixiecrat
Dixiecrat, short for the States' Rights Democratic Party, was the 1948 segregationist splinter party of Southern Democrats. It nominated Strom Thurmond and Fielding Wright, won four Deep South states and 39 electoral votes, then dissolved, marking the start of Southern realignment.
Dixinn
Dixinn is an urban commune of Conakry, Guinea, on the Kaloum peninsula's northeast side; 2014 census population 135,788 across 22 quartiers. It hosts Gamal Abdel Nasser University, Donka Hospital, 28 September Stadium, and the Grand Mosque, and its name is Baga for 'let us settle.'
Dixit
Dixit is a storytelling card game by Jean-Louis Roubira, illustrated by Marie Cardouat, published by Libellud in December 2008. Players give clues to surreal 84-card decks, scoring only when some but not all guess correctly; it won the Spiel des Jahres 2010.
Dixon Chibanda
Dixon Chibanda is a Zimbabwean psychiatrist who founded the Friendship Bench in Harare in 2006, training grandmothers to deliver problem-solving therapy, and directs the African Mental Health Research Initiative.
Dixon Doll
Dixon Doll is an American venture capitalist who co-founded DCM Ventures in Menlo Park in 1996 with David Chao, later chairing the National Venture Capital Association.
Dixon Entrance
Dixon Entrance, also called the A-B Line strait, is the sea passage between southeast Alaska and Haida Gwaii, named for Captain George Dixon in 1788, site of the unresolved Canada-US maritime boundary dispute over the 1903 A-B Line.
Dixon MRI
Dixon MRI is a magnetic resonance imaging technique, reported by W. T. Dixon in 1984, that separates water and fat signals to produce fat-suppressed images and quantitative fat-fraction maps.
Dixon x Jimi Jules
Dixon x Jimi Jules (Dixon & Jimi Jules) is a back-to-back DJ collaboration between German DJ Dixon and Swiss DJ Jimi Jules, first billed at Coachella 2025.
Dixon's Q test
Dixon's Q test is a statistical test for detecting a single outlier in a small univariate sample, introduced by W. J. Dixon in 1950 and standard in analytical chemistry.
Dixville Notch, New Hampshire
Dixville Notch is an unincorporated community in Coös County, far northern New Hampshire, famous for casting the first presidential primary ballots at midnight since 1960.
DIY Drones
DIY Drones is an online community for amateur unmanned aerial vehicles, founded in May 2007 by Chris Anderson of Wired magazine, and became the birthplace of the open-source autopilot ArduPilot.
Diy-Gid-Biy Cultural Landscape of the Mandara Mountains
Diy-Gid-Biy Cultural Landscape of the Mandara Mountains (DGB), Cameroon World Heritage site inscribed 2025: sixteen dry-stone ruins, built 12th-17th centuries by unknown builders, used ritually by the Mafa people.
Diya (lamp)
A diya, also called Divaa, is a small earthen or metal oil lamp lit in Hindu worship, most familiarly in the rows of lamps at Diwali.
Diya (தியா) (film)
Diya (தியா), originally titled Karu, is a 2018 Indian Tamil-Telugu bilingual horror thriller directed by A. L. Vijay for Lyca Productions, starring Sai Pallavi and Naga Shourya; released 27 April 2018, Telugu version Kanam.
Diya al-Din Ibn al-Athir
Diya al-Din Ibn al-Athir (ضياء الدين بن الأثير), born in 1163, was an Arab chancery secretary who served as vizier of Damascus and wrote influential literary criticism.
Diya Aur Baati Hum
Diya Aur Baati Hum (दीया और बाती हम), Star Plus Hindi soap 2011–2016, Shashi Sumeet Productions; Sandhya's IPS dream aided by halwai husband Sooraj; dubbed Eetharam Illalu, En Kanavan En Thozhan; sequel Tu Sooraj Main Saanjh Piyaji.
Diya Kumari (दिया कुमारी)
Diya Kumari (दिया कुमारी), born 1971, is Rajasthan's Deputy Chief Minister and Finance Minister of the BJP, heir of the erstwhile Jaipur royal family, MP for Rajsamand 2019, MLA from Vidhyadhar Nagar since 2023.
Diya' al-Din al-Maqdisi
Diya' al-Din al-Maqdisi (ضياء الدين المقدسي) was a Hanbali hadith scholar of Damascus, born in 1174 and died in 1245, who founded the Dar al-Hadith al-Ziya'iyya school.
Diyar Planitia
Diyar Planitia, a 325-km-wide ridged plain on Saturn's moon Enceladus, IAU-named in 1982 after a land in the Arabian Nights, formed by unstable lithospheric extension.
Diyar-e-Dil
Diyar-e-Dil (دیار دل) is a 2015 Pakistani Hum TV family drama serial, 33 episodes, written by Farhat Ishtiaq, directed by Haseeb Hassan, starring Abid Ali, Maya Ali, and Osman Khalid Butt; winner of 12 Hum Awards.
Diyarbakır
Diyarbakır (Amed, ancient Amida), a major city in southeastern Turkey on the Tigris, with 5.8 km basalt walls and Hevsel Gardens inscribed by UNESCO in 2015; population 1,852,356.
Diyarbakır Fortress and Hevsel Gardens Cultural Landscape
Diyarbakır Fortress and Hevsel Gardens Cultural Landscape (Diyarbakır Kalesi ve Hevsel Bahçeleri), UNESCO World Heritage Site in Türkiye since 2015: 5.8 km basalt city walls with 63 inscriptions, İçkale inner castle, and the Tigris-side Hevsel Gardens, inscribed under criterion (iv).
Diyarbakır Province
Diyarbakır Province (Diyarbakır ili), a province of Turkey's Southeastern Anatolia Region on the Tigris, area about 15,168 km², 17 districts, population 1,833,684 (2024), ancient Amida, UNESCO-listed walls and Hevsel Gardens.
Diyatheh
Diyatheh (ad-Diyatheh) is a Roman fort and deserted village on the eastern slopes of Jabal al-Druze, Suwayda, Syria. Built around 300 as a quadriburgium, 72 by 60 metres, with an older Severan south-west tower and 102 village buildings.
Diyu (地狱)
Diyu (地狱) is the Chinese Buddhist hell realm, the lowest of six realms of rebirth, where the dead pass through ten courts of judgment before their next rebirth.
Dizi (笛子) (instrument)
Dizi (笛子), the Chinese transverse bamboo flute, also called di or hengdi; distinguished by the dimo membrane (mirliton) over an extra hole giving a bright buzzing tone; six finger holes, bangdi and qudi regional types, central to opera, sizhu, and modern Chinese orchestra.
Dizin (دیزین)
Dizin (دیزین) is Iran's largest ski resort, in the Alborz mountains about 70 km north of Tehran. Opened 1969, base 2,650 m to 3,600 m, FIS-recognized, December-to-May season, dry powder snow, grass skiing in summer.
Dizocilpine
Dizocilpine, also known as MK-801, is a non-competitive NMDA receptor antagonist developed by Merck in 1982; restricted medically, it is a standard research tool in schizophrenia studies.