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Dido
Dido (Elissa), legendary Phoenician queen of Tyre who founded Carthage c. 813 BCE; Virgil's Aeneid invented her love affair with Aeneas, her curse, and her suicide, inspiring Ovid, Marlowe, and Dido's problem in mathematics.
Dido (singer)
Dido (Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong, born 1971) is an English singer-songwriter, ex-Faithless vocalist, whose No Angel and Life for Rent sold millions and whose "Thank You" was sampled on Eminem's "Stan".
Dido and Aeneas
Dido and Aeneas (Z 626), Purcell's three-act English baroque opera to Nahum Tate's libretto after Virgil, first known performed 1689 at Josias Priest's Chelsea girls' school; famous for Dido's Lament over a chromatic ground bass.
Dido Elizabeth Belle
Dido Elizabeth Belle was a mixed-heritage British gentlewoman raised at Kenwood House in north London by Lord Chief Justice William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield.
Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray
Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray is a c. 1778 double portrait by David Martin of two cousins raised at Kenwood House, now at Scone Palace.
Dido Harding
Dido Harding, also known as Diana Mary Harding, Baroness Harding of Winscombe, is a British business executive and Conservative peer who was chief executive of TalkTalk from 2010 to 2017.
Didodecyldimethylammonium bromide
Didodecyldimethylammonium bromide, also called DDAB or dilauryldimethylammonium bromide, is a double-tailed quaternary ammonium surfactant, C₂₆H₅₆BrN, that forms vesicles in water, serves as a model amphiphile in colloid science, and carries DNA in gene-delivery formulations.
Didomi
Didomi is a software company selling consent and privacy-management tools, centered on its consent management platform. Founded in 2017, it raised €72 million in 2025 and acquired Addingwell and Sourcepoint.
Didone
Didone, also called Modern or Neoclassical, is a classification of serif typefaces named after Didot and Bodoni, popular from the late 18th through the 19th centuries.
Didrik Nyholm
Didrik Nyholm was a Danish jurist who served 25 years on the Mixed Courts of Egypt and then, from 1921 to 1931, as a judge of the Permanent Court of International Justice.
Didrik Tønseth
Didrik Tønseth (born 1991) is a Norwegian cross-country skier from Trondheim who won Olympic gold in the 4 × 10 km relay at the 2018 PyeongChang Games.
DIDSON
DIDSON (Dual-frequency IDentification SONar) is a high-frequency imaging sonar, often called an acoustic camera, that turns echoes into video-like images of fish in dark or turbid water.
Didyma (Δίδυμα)
Didyma (Branchidai), Apollo's oracle sanctuary south of Miletus in Ionia; priestly Branchidae, destroyed by Darius I in 494 BC, refounded under Alexander, with the giant unfinished Hellenistic temple later converted to a Christian basilica.
Didyme (mistress of Ptolemy II)
Didyme was an Egyptian mistress of Ptolemy II Philadelphus in 3rd-century-BC Alexandria, described as very beautiful and known almost solely from Ptolemy VIII's Memoirs and a possible epigram by Asclepiades.
Didymograptus
Didymograptus, Ordovician planktonic graptolite genus (Dichograptidae), type species D. murchisoni (Beck 1839); two pendent stipes form a tuning-fork colony used as an index fossil.
Didymoi (Egypt)
Didymoi (Khashm al-Minayh), Roman praesidium on the Coptos–Berenice road in Egypt's Eastern Desert; founded 76/77 CE by prefect Iulius Ursus, rebuilt 176/177, abandoned mid-3rd century; rich ostraca record.
Didymosis aplasticosebacea
Didymosis aplasticosebacea, now pseudodidymosis aplasticosebacea, is a rare congenital disorder pairing sebaceous nevus with adjacent aplasia cutis congenita plus ocular and CNS abnormalities; a mosaic RASopathy.
Didymosphenia geminata
Didymosphenia geminata, commonly called didymo or rock snot, is a freshwater diatom native to northern Europe and North America that forms dense streambed mats in nutrient-poor rivers worldwide since the 1990s.
Die (manufacturing)
A die is a specialized tool, usually a block of hardened tool steel, that shapes material under pressure in processes such as stamping, extrusion, forging, and die casting.
Die Aktion
Die Aktion, a German literary and political weekly edited by Franz Pfemfert in Berlin from 1911 to 1932, helped literary Expressionism achieve its breakthrough and championed an undogmatic left politics.
Die Alone
Die Alone is a 2024 Canadian-US apocalyptic horror film written and directed by Lowell Dean, starring Carrie-Anne Moss, Douglas Smith, and Frank Grillo; an amnesiac searches for his girlfriend among zombie-like 'Reclaimed' hybrids, with a twist ending.
Die Another Day
Die Another Day (2002) is the 20th official James Bond film and Pierce Brosnan's fourth and final outing as 007, directed by Lee Tamahori, grossing $431,971,781 worldwide, and prompting the grittier Casino Royale reboot.
Die Antwoord
Die Antwoord ('the answer' in Afrikaans) is a Cape Town rap-rave group formed in 2008: Ninja, Yo-Landi Vi$$er, and DJ Hi-Tek, known for zef culture, 'Enter the Ninja' (2010), and scholarly debate over appropriation.
Die Arbeiter von Wien
Die Arbeiter von Wien is a German workers' song by Fritz Brügel on Samuel Pokrass's Soviet march "White Army, Black Baron" (1920). Attested from 1926, tied to the 1927 July revolt and Justizpalast fire in Vienna, it spread after the 1934 February fighting and remains an antifascist standard.
Die attach
Die attach, also called die bonding, is the semiconductor packaging step that bonds a chip die to a lead frame or substrate using epoxy adhesive, solder, or sintered silver.
Die Bad (죽거나 혹은 나쁘거나)
Die Bad (죽거나 혹은 나쁘거나, Jukgeona hokeun nabbeugeona) is Ryoo Seung-wan's 2000 South Korean feature debut, a four-chapter hard-boiled action film built from two award-winning shorts on a 65-million-won budget, following a pool-hall killing through prison, ghosts, and gang war.
Die Berg
Die Berg (De Berg), peak in Thaba Chweu, Mpumalanga, South Africa; highest point of Steenkampsberg and of Mpumalanga at about 2,331 m, prominence 676 m, isolation 292.59 km.
Die Brandwag
Die Brandwag ("The sentry") was the name of several Afrikaans magazines published in South Africa, the best known a Pretoria family and literary journal of 1910 to 1922.
Die Brücke
Die Brücke (The Bridge) was a German Expressionist artists' group founded in Dresden in 1905 by four architecture students, including Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and dissolved in 1913.
Die by the Sword
Die by the Sword is Treyarch's 1998 PC swordfighting action game, published by Interplay/Tantrum, using the VSIM physics system with mouse-controlled swordplay, dismemberment, four-player arena modes, and the Limb from Limb expansion.