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Dictionary of National Biography
The Dictionary of National Biography (DNB, Oxford DNB), the British national biographical reference: first edition 1885–1900 in 63 volumes edited by Leslie Stephen; 2004 Oxford edition with 64,533 biographies.
Dictionary of the Khazars
The Dictionary of the Khazars, Hazarski rečnik, is a 1984 novel by the Serbian writer Milorad Pavić, written as a dictionary of the Khazar people.
Did You Hear About the Morgans?
Did You Hear About the Morgans? is a 2009 Marc Lawrence romantic comedy starring Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker as a separated New York couple placed in witness protection in rural Wyoming after witnessing a murder; critics rated it poorly (Metascore 27, RT 12%).
Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd is the ninth studio album by Lana Del Rey, released in March 2023 through Polydor Records.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dìdi
Dìdi (弟弟) is Sean Wang's 2024 semi-autobiographical coming-of-age comedy-drama about a 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy in Fremont, California, in 2008, starring Izaac Wang and Joan Chen; it won Sundance's U.S. Dramatic Audience Award and was distributed by Focus Features.
Didi (music)
"Didi" (ديدي) is a 1992 song by the Algerian raï singer Khaled, produced by Don Was, a hit in 49 countries and the first Arabic-language record to reach the French Top 10.
Didi Conn
Didi Conn (Edith Bernstein, born 1951, Brooklyn) is the American actress who played Frenchy in Grease (1978) and Grease 2, also known for Benson, Shining Time Station, and Grease: Live!.
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 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.
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 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 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 Entführung aus dem Serail
Die Entführung aus dem Serail (K. 384, The Abduction from the Seraglio) is Mozart's three-act German Singspiel, premiered at Vienna's Burgtheater on 16 July 1782, set in Pasha Selim's harem and famous for its Janissary alla turca music and demanding arias.
Die Fantastischen Vier
Die Fantastischen Vier are a German hip hop group from Stuttgart formed in 1989, regarded as pioneers of German-language rap with more than eight million records sold.
Die Feuerzangenbowle
Die Feuerzangenbowle is a 1944 German comedy by Helmut Weiss with Heinz Rühmann as writer Johannes Pfeiffer, who returns to school in disguise; based on Heinrich Spoerl's novel, a Nazi-era production now a student cult Christmas film.
Die Fledermaus
Die Fledermaus (The Bat) is Johann Strauss II's three-act operetta, libretto by Haffner and Genée after Meilhac and Halévy's Le Réveillon, premiered 5 April 1874 at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna, and a staple of New Year's Eve opera programming.
Die Frühlingsfeier
Die Frühlingsfeier is a hymnic ode by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock on spring and the divine, written in 1759 and published in a revised version in 1771.
Die Gartenlaube
Die Gartenlaube, German for "The Arbor," was a German weekly illustrated family magazine published from 1853 to 1944 and the first successful German mass-circulation periodical.
Die Grenzboten
Die Grenzboten was a German national-liberal weekly journal founded by Ignaz Kuranda in Brussels in 1841 that became the leading organ of the national-liberal bourgeoisie in Germany.