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Dida (footballer, born 1973)

Dida (Nelson de Jesus da Silva, born 1973, Irará, Bahia), Brazilian goalkeeper; 2002 World Cup winner, two Champions Leagues with AC Milan (2003, 2007), famed penalty saver; distinct from the 1998-born Dida.

Didache (Διδαχή)

The Didache (Διδαχή), or Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, is an anonymous early Christian manual preserving some of the earliest descriptions of baptism, Eucharist, and fasting.

Didactic method

Didactic method: the strategies and resources a teacher uses to bring about student learning, rooted in Comenius' Didactica Magna and central to the explicit instruction versus discovery learning debate.

Didactic poem

A didactic poem (German Lehrgedicht) is a poem whose primary purpose is to teach, conveying knowledge or instruction in poetic form; the 18th century saw its last flowering.

Didactic poetry

Didactic poetry is poetry whose purpose is to teach, presenting subjects such as science, farming, or moral conduct; Hesiod's Works and Days is the earliest surviving example.

Didacticism

Didacticism is a philosophy emphasizing instructional and informative qualities in literature, art, and design, from Greek didaktikos, skilled in teaching. Known for Aesop's Fables, medieval morality plays, and its pejorative modern sense of preachy art.

Oct 10, 2026

Didacus Ximenes

Didacus Ximenes, or Diego Ximénez, was a sixteenth-century Spanish Dominican friar described as a theologian, philosopher, and astronomer who died in 1560. A Salamanca-trained lawyer, he served Archbishop Carranza in a failed 1559 mission to Segovia.

Oct 15, 2026

Didaktik

Didaktik was a series of 8-bit home computers made by a cooperative in Skalica, Czechoslovakia, beginning in 1986 with ZX Spectrum clones like the Gama and M.

Didanosine

Didanosine (ddI, Videx, dideoxyinosine), an NRTI antiretroviral for HIV-1; second FDA-approved HIV drug (9 October 1991); withdrawn from U.S. market due to pancreatitis, neuropathy, and mitochondrial toxicity.

Sep 19, 2026

Didanu

Didanu, also written Ditanu or Tidanu, was an Amorite ancestor figure claimed by Hammurabi's dynasty of Babylon and the early Assyrian King List; whether a king of this name existed is uncertain.

Didarganj Yakshi

The Didarganj Yakshi (दीदारगंज यक्षी) is an ancient Indian life-size sandstone statue of a woman holding a fly-whisk, found on the Ganges bank near Patna in 1917.

Oct 15, 2026

Didcot power stations

The Didcot power stations are generating stations at Didcot, Oxfordshire, England: Didcot A, a 2,000 MW coal-fired station built from 1965 to 1974, and the gas-fired Didcot B.

Sep 23, 2026

Didda

Didda (दिद्दा) was queen consort, regent, and finally sovereign ruler of Kashmir, holding effective power from 958 and reigning in her own right from 980/1 until her death in 1003.

Diddy Kong Racing

Diddy Kong Racing is Rare's 1997 Nintendo 64 kart, hovercraft, and plane racer with an adventure hub, boss races against Wizpig, and a 2007 DS remake with track editor and Wi-Fi.

Diddy parties

Diddy parties: Sean Combs's celebrity gatherings, chiefly his all-white White Parties (1998-2009) at his East Hampton estate, distinct from the private "freak-off" sex parties central to his 2025 federal trial and related civil suits.

Didecyldimethylammonium chloride

Didecyldimethylammonium chloride (DDAC, CAS 7173-51-5) is a double-chain quaternary ammonium disinfectant and biocide first registered in 1962, membrane-active, poorly absorbed, approved in the EU for biocidal product-types 1, 2, 3, 4, and 8.

Didelphidae

Didelphidae (American opossums) is the only family of the marsupial order Didelphimorphia, native to the Americas, with 10 g to 2 kg species, 50 teeth, and a generalized ancestral body plan.

Didelphis

Didelphis (large American opossums) is a marsupial genus of six species in Didelphidae, established by Linnaeus in 1758, ranging from central Argentina to southern Canada, including the Virginia opossum D. virginiana.

Didelphodon

Didelphodon is an extinct genus of metatherian mammals from Late Cretaceous North America whose largest species, D. vorax, was a bone- and shell-crushing predator of the dinosaur age.

Didemnum vexillum

Didemnum vexillum, carpet sea squirt, a colonial tunicate native to the northwest Pacific (probably Japan) that invades temperate coasts worldwide, overgrowing docks, shellfish, and seabeds; failed New Zealand eradication cost $650,000 NZD.

Didgeridoo

Didgeridoo (didjeridu; Yolngu yidaki or mandapul) is a termite-hollowed eucalypt drone tube of northern Aboriginal Australia, about 1500 years old by rock art, played by men with circular breathing.

Didgoroba

Didgoroba (Georgian: დიდგორობა, "Day of Didgori") is Georgia's annual August 12 commemoration of the Battle of Didgori, won by King David IV over a Seljuk invasion in 1121.

DiDi

DiDi (Chinese: 滴滴), also known as Didi Chuxing, is a Chinese ride-hailing and shared mobility platform founded in 2012, operating in China and 14 other countries.