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! (disambiguation)
! is an exclamation mark. It may also refer to: !, an album by The Dismemberment Plan!, an album by Captain of IndustryThe symbol for the mathemetical operator FactorialThe boolean symbol for negation in many programming languages This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of ar..
Å (disambiguation)
Å may refer to: Places Å ([o:]) means river in Scandinavian languages. A number of places have been named Å: Å in Norrköping municipality, Östergötland, SwedenÅ in Andøy municipality, Nordland, NorwayÅ in Moskenes municipality, Nordland, NorwayÅ in Meldal municipality, Sør-..
D'Israeli
This article is about the cartoonist known as D'Israeli. You may be looking for Benjamin Disraeli or Isaac D'Israeli Matt Brooker, whose work most often appears under the pseudonym D'Israeli (sometimes D'Israeli D'Emon D'Raughtsman), is a British comic artist, colorist, writer and letterer. Other ..
Déisi
The Déisi was a term used to describe a class of peoples in ancient Ireland. It was derived from the word "déis", which meant "vassal", or "subject". One expert on the subject states that '"... the original meaning of Déisi, as applied to population-groups would have being ''vassal or rent-payi..
Déisi Tuisceart
Déisi Tuisceart was a generic term to describe a number of unrelated, rent-paying vassal tuatha (a people, or nation) situated in north-east Munster, mainly at and south of the present-day city of Limerick. They included tuatha such as the Alltraige, Corco Baiscinn, Dál gCais, Eile, Muscraige, Uai..
Diósd
Diósd, Hungary is a small town located between the larger cities of Budapest and Érd. It best found by traveling on the Balitoni útca past the M0. Though many residents commute to work in the capital city of Budapest, the two largest employers in the town are a manufacturing plant that produces..
Diósgyőr
Diósgyőr is a historical town in Hungary, today a district of Miskolc, former centre of heavy industry. Its population is around 60,000 (about one third of the city's population.) Its mediaeval castle was a favourite holiday residence of Hungarian kings and queens, today it's a popular tourist att..
Diósgyőri VTK
Diósgyőri VTK is a Hungarian Football (Soccer) Club Team. ..
Diósjenő
Diósjenő County Nógrád Area 57,5 km² Population Total (2001)Density   280349 /km² Postal code 2643 Area code 35 Diósjenő is a village in Nógrád county, Hungary. It is surrounded by hills and beautiful landscape. Contents 1 History2 Tourist s..
Dis
Dis is usually a proper name and may mean: Dis (Altered Beast) (see Altered Beast), a fictional city in the Altered Beast video gameDis (see The Divine Comedy), the fictional city containing the lower circles of Hell; also an alternate name for Lucifer in the same workDis Pater, predecessor of Plu..
DIS
DIS stands for: Deep Inelastic ScatteringDefence Intelligence StaffDistributed Interactive SimulationThe Walt Disney CompanyDrowned In SoundDaytona International Speedway ..
Dis-
The prefix dis- (also di-, dif-) first appeared in English words in the Middle English period in words borrowed from French (usually as the French des-). It comes from the Latin prefix dis-, which is thought to have come from 'duus' two and thus had the most basic sense of 'two ways' hance 'apart.'..
Dis-organization
Dis-organization describes a group that uses lateral rather than vertical organization systems, generally anti-centralized-power. The concept is similar to that of a grassroots-style organization. Such groups often use guerilla and viral marketing techniques to propagate ideas, rather than products...
Disa
This article treats the legendary heroine Disa, for other uses see Disa (disambiguation) Disa is the heroine of a Swedish legendary saga, which was documented by Olaus Magnus, in 1555. It is believed to be from the Middle Ages, but including Old Norse matters. It was elaborated by Johannes Messen..
Disabilities
Disabilities are limitations in activity and/or functioning that are attributable to permanent medical conditions in physical, mental, emotional, and/or sensory domains and, significantly, are also due to societal responses to those limitations. Contents 1 Defining Disability2 Demo..
Disability
Disability refers to the social effects of physical or mental impairment. This definition, known as the 'social model' of disability, makes a clear distinction between the impairment itself (such as a medical condition that makes a person unable to walk or unable to sit) and the disabling effe..
Disability-adjusted life years
Disability-adjusted life years (DALY) is a measure for the overall "burden of disease." Originally developed by the World Health Organization, it is becoming increasingly common in the field of public health. It is designed to quantify the impact of premature death and disability on a population by..
Disability devotee
One attracted to people with disabilities. The term "devotee" is said to have emerged in Chicago in the early-mid-1980s among a group of men attracted to amputee women and the women amputees with whom they socialised. It was selected because of its alliteration with "amputee," and because of the a..
Disability discrimination act
In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, a number of countries have passed laws aimed at reducing unfair discrimination against people with disabilities. These laws have begun to appear as the notion of civil rights has become more influential globally, and follow other forms of anti-discriminati..
Disability Discrimination Act 1992
The Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (DDA) was an act passed by the Parliament of Australia in 1992 to promote the rights of people with disabillities in certain areas such as housing, education and provision of goods and services. It shares a common philosophy with other disability discrimination..
Disability Discrimination Act 1995
Acts of Parliament of predecessorstates to the United Kingdom Acts of Parliament of the Kingdom of England to 1600Acts of Parliament of the Kingdom of England to 1706Acts of Parliament of the Kingdom of ScotlandActs of Parliament of the Kingdom of Ireland Acts of Parliament of the United Kingdom ..
Disability etiquette
The term “etiquette” refers to a set of rules - written and unwritten - governing what constitutes socially acceptable behavior under a variety of circumstances. Typically, these rules, based upon social norms, are not codified in criminal or civil law; but rather are enforced on an individual l..
Disability management
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Disability Management Program
A Disability Management Program, or DMP, is used by employers to assist employees who are unable to work due to injury or illness. The DMP consists of several components, however not all DMPs have all possible components. Smaller programs may only include the basic components while larger programs ..
Disability pension
Disability pension is a form of pension given to those people who are permanently or temporarily unable to work due to a disability. An example of a disability pension is the Canada Pension Plan. Another example is supplemental Security Income (SSI) in the United States. In Australia, people on dis..
Disability pretenders
One attracted to people with disabilities and behaving as if s/he is disabled. Pretenders may be the "missing link" between devotees and wannabes, proving an assumed continuum between those merely attracted to people with disabilities and those actively wishing to become disabled. Pretending tak..
Disability Rights Commission
The Disability Rights Commission (DRC) is an independent non-departmental public body set up by the British Parliament to end discrimination against disabled people. The Equality Bill would replace the DRC with a new Commission for Equality and Human Rights with powers across all equality law (race..
Disability rights movement
The disability rights movement aims to improve the quality of life of people with disabilities. Accessibility and safety are primary issues that this movement works to reform. Access to public areas such as city streets and public buildings and restrooms are some of the more visible changes brough..
Disability studies
Disability studies is an interdisciplinary field of study, which is focused on the contributions, experiences, history, and culture of people with disabilities. The field of teaching and research in the area of disability studies is growing worldwide. Disability studies is based on the premise that..
Disability wannabes
One wishing to acquire a disability for narcissistic reasons and because they are attracted to people with disabilities. The term "wannabe" is said to have emerged by the mid-1990s among people wishing to become amputees. It was selected because of its alliteration with "devotee" and "amputee," an..
Disabled list
In Major League Baseball, the disabled list (DL) is a means for teams to remove their injured players from the roster in order to summon healthy players to temporarily replace them. There are two types of DL: the 15 day and the 60 day (previously there was also a 21 day DL). Players may be put on ..
Disabled Owen
Disabled is a poem written by Wilfred Owen, a WWI poet. Disabled is about a man who lost all his limbs in a battle. He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark, And shivered in his ghastly suit of grey, Legless, sewn short at elbow. Through the park Voices of boys rang saddening like a hymn, Voic..
Disabled robotics
Disabled robotics is the use of robots to help humans cope with a medical disability that otherwise impedes the completion of daily tasks. See also Domotics ..
Disabled skiing at the 1988 Winter Olympics
Disabled skiing was a demonstration sport at the 1988 Winter Olympics. Contrary to the Paralympics, these events were demonstrations held during the Olympics. Contents 1 Placement table2 Men's event2.1 Modified Giant slalom for above-the-Knee Amputees2.2 Cross country, 5 km (f..
Disabled sports
Paris 2006 Disabled sports are sports played by persons with a disability, including physical and intellectual disabilities. As many of these based on existing sports modified to meet the needs of persons with a disability, they are sometimes referred to as adapted sports. However, not all dis..
Disable job requests while running job pattern
In software engineering, the disable job requests while running job pattern is a software design pattern of disabling job requests when necessary. When a job is requested its possible for the same job to be requested a second time before the first job completes. Parallel processing of the smae job ..
Disablism
Disablism is discriminatory, oppressive, or abusive behaviour arising from the belief that people with disabilities are inferior to others. Unlike racism or sexism, it is not defined in most dictionaries, but is commonly used by people to describe the discrimination (both intentional and unintention..
Disaccharidase
Disaccharidase is a type of enzyme that breaks down disaccharides into monosaccharides. Examples of disaccharidases lactase (breaks down lactose into glucose and galactose)maltase (breaks down maltose into 2 glucoses)sucrase (breaks down sucrose into glucose and fructose)trehalase (breaks down tre..
Disaccharide
A disaccharide is a sugar (a carbohydrate) composed of two monosaccharides. Chemistry The two monosaccharides are bonded via a condensation reaction. This bond can be between the 1-, 4-, or 6-carbon on each component monosaccharide. So, even if both component sugars are the same (e.g., glucose)..
Disadvantage
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Disaffected!
Disaffected! is a free anti-advergame by Persuasive Games. In the game the player plays as an employee of FedEx Kinko's and must process customer orders in an increasingly complicated environment. The game is freeware to avoid any potential legal issues with the settings. External links [Per..
Disaggregated sovereignty
Disaggregated sovereignty refers to the need for broad strategic cooperation on critical issues requiring the ceding of sovereignty from several sovereign entities to new institutions without creating a centralized authority or "government." Some people argue that this is the de facto situation of ..
Disallowance and reservation
In Canadian constitutional law, disallowance and reservation are constitutional powers to reject any bill passed by Parliament or any legislature in Canada on the authority of the "Imperial Parliament". They were also used by the federal government to veto provincial laws. These powers are granted..
Disambiguation:Nawab of Pataudi
The term Nawab of Pataudi may refer to any of a lineage of rulers of the princely state of Pataudi in India, notably to two captains of the Indian cricket team, being: Iftikhar Ali Khan, Nawab of Pataudi; "Pataudi Sr." in cricket parlanceMansoor Ali Khan, Nawab of Pataudi; "Pataudi Jr." in cricket ..
Disappearing Acts
Disappearing Acts is a 2000 drama-romance film, directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, and stars Sanaa Lathan, Wesley Snipes, and Regina Hall. This films is an adaptation of the New York Times best-selling novel Disappearing Acts, by Terry McMillan. Contents 1 Synopsis2 Cast3 Awards &..
Disappearing blonde gene
Disappearing blonde gene was a hoax hit in 2002. As the hoax goes, the WHO (or other experts) published a report that the gene responsible for blond hair is about to be extinct. Respectable news agencies, such as Canadian Press and BBC News took the bait. In 2002 BBC News (and others) reported..
Disappearing quorum
The disappearing quorum was a practice used by the minority party to prevent voting in the US House of Representatives. By refusing to vote and be recorded as present while in fact physically present, a quorum was not achieved and the vote did not count. The practice was shattered on January 29, 1..
Disappear (INXS song)
Disappear was a single by INXS, the second single taken from their album X. It peaked at number 8 on the US billboard top 100. The song is driven by synth beats. The song was written by Jon Farriss and Michael Hutchence while they were living together in Hong Kong for a few months. EXTERNAL LINK..
Disappear fear
The correct title of this } is }}}. The initial letter is capitalized due to [Naming conventions #Lower case first lettertechnical restrictions]. disappear fear, an American folk/power pop band, formed in Baltimore in 1987. The original band consisted of sisters Sonia Rutstein and Cindy R..
Disappear Here
Disappear Here is the title of the third release by English metal band Peach, released in 1992. It was originally released as a 3-track tape cassette and is now extremely rare. Track listing "Disappear Here" [Original Chorus]"Velvet""Peach" Personnel Simon Oakes – VocalistRob Havi..
Disappointment
Disappointment is the emotion felt when a strongly held expectation is not met. ..
Disappointment Islands
The Disappointment Islands (French: Îles du Désappointement) are a small group of coral atolls located in the northeastern part of the Tuamotu Archipelago. The atolls are Tepoto and Napuka. Often included with them is Puka-Puka, 180 miles (300 km) to their southeast. The islands are dry, and no..
Disappointment Reference Area
Disappointment Reference Area is a large state forest in Central Highlands of the Australian state of Victoria, adjoining Kinglake National Park. The name originates from the disappointment of explorers Hamilton Hume and William Hovell when they could not see, as they had hoped, Port Phillip Bay an..
Disapproval voting
Disapproval voting is any voting system that allows many voters to express formal disapproval simultaneously, in a system where they all share some power. Unlike most voting systems, it requires that only negative measures or choices be presented to the voter or representative. If used to select c..
Disarm
"Disarm" Single by The Smashing Pumpkins From the album Siamese Dream Single Released March 22 1994 Single Format vinyl record (7" & 12") and 2 CDs Recorded 1993 Genre Alternative rock Song Length 3:17 Record label Virgin Records Producer Butch Vig & Billy Corgan Chart positions #5 ..
Disarmament
Disarmament means the reduction or elimination by a nation of its weapons systems. The concept of disarmament is an ideal based on the view that weapons cause wars, and that the elimination of weapons will in itself remove the main causes of conflict. Many people also believe that by disarming, indi..
Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration
Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration ("DDR") is an applied strategy for executing successful peacekeeping operations, and is generally the strategy employed by all UN Peacekeeping Operations. Disarmament entails the physical removal of the means of combat from ex-belligerents (weapons, ammu..
Disarmed Enemy Forces
Disarmed Enemy Forces is a designation for captive enemy soldiers. Most referenced by Dwight D. Eisenhower's redesignation of POW's in post WWII occupied Germany. The purpose of the designation is to circumvent the Geneva Convention, Relative to the treatment of prisoners of war. See also Surrender..
Disarming Act
After Jacobite Rising of 1715 ended it was evident that the most effective supporters of the Jacobites were Scottish clans in the Scottish Highlands and the Disarming Act attempted to remove this threat. "An act for the more effectual securing the peace of the highlands in Scotland" was passed by ..
Disarmonia Mundi
Disarmonia Mundi is a melodic death metal band/project from Italy featuring Soilwork's vocalist Bjorn "Speed" Strid Contents 1 Band History2 Current Band Members3 Former Band Members4 Discography5 Videography6 References7 External links Band History Ettore Ri..
Disarm bush
Disarm Bush T-Shirts is a for-profit political activism campaign created in 2004 in the run-up to the American Presidential election, in which the incumbent George W. Bush ultimately defeated challenger John Kerry. Disarm Bush effectively mobilized opposition to the Republican incumbent in a number ..
Disassembler
A disassembler is a computer program which translates machine language into assembly language, performing the inverse operation to that of an assembler. A dissasembler differs from a decompiler, which targets a high level language rather than assembly language. Disassembly, the output of a disasse..
Disassembly
In computer programming, a disassembly is the result when machine code is translated back into assembly language. The term can also refer to the process of creating the disassembly, i.e. using and interacting with a disassembler. Most of the useful information, like variable names, is stripped dur..
Disassociate
"The Disassociate" TM is an anonymous column about the humorous side of life as a practicing lawyer. It is also a weblog comic updated daily @ www.disassociate.net. Look for "The Disassociate" line of greeting cards coming to a law school bookstore near you. Disassociate is a grind punk band from..
Disassociated Press
Disassociated Press, or The Disassociated Press, is a common spoof on The Associated Press used by satirists to depict a fictitious news organization. It has been used throughout the years in entertainment and literature in a variety of vehicles, ranging from Looney Tunes cartoons from the 1950's t..
Disassociation/Association
Word Association/Disassociation Requirements: 2-1,000 playersDrinks on handSuitable forfeits if drink runs out This game of endurance requires players to associate and disassociate words - the leader of the game begins by announcing his chosen word and the players must then 'associate' their word ..
Disassortative sexual selection
Disassortative sexual selection is a form of sexual selection in which one sex chooses the other, in such a way that the offspring benefits from the diversity of the parental genotypes. Two examples of this form of selection are self-incompatibility in plants and MHC class III genes. ..
Disaster
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Disaster: Day of Crisis
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Disasterpieces
Disasterpieces is a live DVD featuring the band Slipknot. The DVD was quite successful, due to the popularity of the band and the quality of performances, which used intricately placed cameras on the headstock of a guitar, and a "first person" point of view of the bands lead singer Corey Taylor. Sh..
Disasters Emergency Committee
The Disasters Emergency Committee is an umbrella group of several UK charities. These charities are all associated with disaster related issues such as providing clean water, children, humanitarian aid and medical care. The DEC was created in 1963. It brings together a unique alliance of the UK's a..
Disasters of Partisan Prohibitions
The Disasters of Partisan Prohibitions (黨錮之禍) refers to two incidents in which a number of Confucian scholars who served as officials in the Han imperial government and opposed to powerful eunuchs, and the university students in the capital Luoyang who supported them (collectively referred t..
Disasters of the century
Disasters of the Century is a regular show on the television channel The Histry Channel (History Television), which broadcasts in Canada and the United States. It shows everyday at 6:30AM and 10:30AM, as well as at 3:00PM on everyday except Friday. Each show focuses on a different disasters that t..
Disaster (TNG episode)
Disaster is a season 5 episode of [[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]. It recounts events following a collision with a quantum filament that disrupts all of the systems on board the ship (including the communications systems), setting up the conditions for a warp core breach that will destroy the s..
Disaster area
A disaster area is a region or a locale heavily damaged by either natural hazards, such as hurricanes, tsunamis, floods, earthquakes, or technological hazards like nuclear and radiation accidents, sociological hazards like riots, terrorism or war. The population living there often experiences a los..
Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team
The Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team (DART) is an elite team within the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) formed in 1990 to handle complex rescue and fire fighting incidents such as urban search and rescue, prolonged fire fighting, height and confined space operations, and water rescue. One o..
Disaster Assistance Response Team
DART sets up camp in Sri Lanka. They will use their assault boats to ferry people to a nearby island. (Source: DND) The Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) is a rapidly deployable team of 200 Canadian Forces personnel to provide assistance to disaster-affected regions for up to 40 days. ..
Disaster convergence
Disaster convergence is the phenomenon of individuals or groups moving towards a disaster stricken area. Convergers have many reasons for heading towards a disaster area. Kendra and Wachtendorf (2002) identified seven distinct categories of convergers. These categories are mourners, the anxious, ret..
Disaster film
A disaster film is a film that has an impending or ongoing disaster (e.g. a major fire, earthquake, shipwreck, or an asteroid collision with Earth) as its subject. They typically feature large casts and multiple plotlines, and focus on the characters' attempts to avert, escape, or cope with the aft..
Disaster Medical Assistance Team
Disaster Medical Assistance Team, or DMAT, a specifically-defined emergency medical resource in the United States. Originally created as a partnership between the United States Public Health Service and communities throughout the U.S., DMAT teams were absorbed by the new Department of Homeland Secur..
Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000
The Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000, Public Law 106-390, also called the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act is U.S. federal legislation passed in 2000 which amended provisions of the United States Code related to disaster relief. It is named after Robert Stafford, who l..
Disaster Monitoring Constellation
The Disaster Monitoring Constellation (DMC) consists of five remote-sensing satellites constructed by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd for the Algerian, Nigerian, Turkish, British and Chinese governments. The DMC provides emergency Earth imaging for disaster relief under the International Charter for..
Disaster myopia
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Disaster of Annual
The "Disaster of Annual" was a grave military defeat suffered by the Spanish army on July 22, 1921 at Annual in northeastern Morocco during the Rif War or War of Melilla. The defeat led to a redefinition of Spanish colonial policy toward the Rif. Spanish corpses at Monte Arruit. On July 22, ..
Disaster of Curalaba
The Disaster of Curalaba is the name given to a battle (or surprise attack) between spanish conquerors led by Martín García Oñez de Loyola and Mapuche people led by Pelantaru on a place called Curalaba (witch means broken stone in Mapudungun), in southern Chile. This event led to the end of the "..
Disaster of Rancagua
The Disaster of Rancagua occurred in October 1814 when the Spanish under Mariano Osorio defeated rebel Chilean forces. This led to the harsh reconquista rule of the Spanish. ..
Disaster of the Gladden Fields
The Disaster of the Gladden Fields, also known as the Battle of Gladden Fields was a short battle in the Lord of the Rings fantasy universe created by JRR Tolkien, taking place on the eves of Greenwood the Great forest, in the second year of the Third Age. After the War of the Last Alliance, Isil..
Disaster Plan
Disaster Plan are an indie rock band from Melbourne, Australia. Discography Assembly Area #1 (1996)Evacuation Centre (1998)Party LP (2001)Self Help Guide (2002)Reality Correctors One Through Twelve LP (2004) ..
Disaster Preparedness and Response Team
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Disaster recovery
A Disaster recovery plan covers the data, hardware and software critical for a business to restart operations in the event of a natural or human-caused disaster. It should also include plans for coping with the unexpected or sudden loss of key personnel, although this is not covered in this articl..
Disaster recovery and business continuity auditing
Disaster recovery and business continuity refers to an organization’s ability to recover from a disaster and/or unexpected event and resume and continue operations. Organizations should have a plan in place (usually referred to as a "Disaster Recovery Plan", or "Business Continuity Plan") that out..
Disaster Recovery Center
Definition Disaster recovery in Information Technology is the ability of an infrastructure to restart operations after a disaster. Disaster recovery is used both in the context of data loss prevention and data recovery. Overview The following, Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP)Business Continuity Plan ..
Disaster Relief (The West Wing)
"Disaster Relief" is episode 94 of The West Wing. [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. Plot A national emergency is declared by Bartlet in light of a killer tornado in Oklahoma that then preoccupies him. He flies there to lend his support. But his compassi..
Disaster Relief Act of 1974
The Disaster Relief Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-288) is a United States federal law that established the process of presidential disaster declarations. At one point, more than one hundred federal agencies were involved in handling disasters and emergencies. In 1979, President Jimmy Carter consolidate..
Disaster Report
Disaster Report is a survival action adventure video game created by Irem in Japan. It was released for PlayStation 2 in 2002 in Japan and released in USA the following year. The game deals with survival and escape from a slowly collapsing artificial island. While dodging falling buildings and debr..
Disaster research
Disaster research deals with conducting field and survey research on group, organizational and community preparation for, response to, and recovery from natural and technological disasters and other community-wide crises. The purpose behind this field of research is to attempt to advance and commun..
Disaster Resource Network
The Disaster Resource Network (DRN), an initiative of the World Economic Forum, was the first non-governmental organization to donate to the United Nations' CERF, a fund created to aid regions threatened by starvation and disasters, particularly African nations. DRN organizes and mobilizes business..
Disaster response
The UK organisation for the provision of Disaster Response by Radio amateurs is called RAYNET. More information on RAYNET and the services it provides can be found at http://www.raynet-uk.net/ The RSGB (Radio Society of Great Britain) has further information on Disaster Response at http://www.rsgb..
Disaster tourism
Disaster tourism is the act of travelling to a disaster scene not to help, but because to look with interest upon the devastation. It can pose a problem if it hinders rescue, relief and repair work. Disaster tourism has caused annoyance after Hurricane Katrina, because of people travelling to New O..
Disaster Transport
Disaster Transport is a roller coaster located at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio. It originally opened in 1985 as Avalanche Run, a bobsled roller coaster that was entirely outdoors. In 1990, ITEC Productions was called in to renovate the ride, completely enclosing it in what is now known as the "12..
Disattenuation
In measurement and statistics, disattenuation of a correlation between two sets of parameters or measures is the estimation of the correlation in a manner that accounts for measurement error contained within the estimates of those parameters. Contents 1 Background2 Derivation of the for..
Disaudio
Disaudio is Wales' first licensed digital music download website. Based in Cardiff, Wales and specialising in independent Welsh music, Disaudio sells mp3s with no Digital Rights Management via e-commerce or SMS. External links [Disaudio.com][Article in Western Mail Newspaper]..
Disa (disambiguation)
The name Disa can refer to: Disa, the legendary Swedish heroine.The orchid that Carl Peter Thunberg named after Disa, see Disa (orchid).DISA is an acronym for the Defense Information Systems Agency.Disa Records, A Mexican record label.Disa (name) is a female name. redirect[[Template:Disambig]]..
Disa (name)
Disa is a female name. It is a short form of Hjördis and other names ending in -dis and a form of Desideria. The ending -dis is connected with Dísir. Famous Disas Disa, heroineDisa Gillis, actress ..
Disa (orchid)
The orchid genus Disa consists of 169 terrestrial species in tropical and South Africa, Madagascar and along the Western Indian Ocean. They grow in gorges, near waterfalls and brooks. Its members are primarily from South Africa, and it is most noted for the species Disa uniflora, a spectacular red..
Disa O'Brien
Disa O'Brien was a fictional character in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. She was played by Jan Graveson. Disa was a tough seeming Wearside runaway, who helped Diane Butcher to survive when she lived rough on the streets. History Disa was first seen in March 1990. Diane Butcher had run away from ..
Disa Park
Disa Park is one of the most notorious pieces of architecture in the Vredehoek area of Cape Town, South Africa. Built by the construction company Murray and Roberts in the 1960s these three 17 story, cylindrical towers, called Blinkwater, Platteklip and Silverstroom, are nestled on the slopes ..
Disbarment
Disbarment is a penalty for lawyers. It consists of no longer being allowed to practice law or argue cases. For most lawyers, this can essentially mean no longer having a livelihood. Generally disbarment is imposed as a sanction for conduct indicating that an attorney is not fit to practice law,..
DiSC
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Discalceation
Discalceation is a word that means "removal of footwear". It is also the name of a ritual used by members of Masonic Lodges, wherein they remove their shoes before entering holy ground. The masonic ritual is alleged to derive from an ancient Jewish practice. St. Teresa of Ávila was one of a numb..
Discalced
Discalced is a term applied to those religious congregations of men and women, the members of which go entirely barefoot or wear sandals, with or without other covering for the feet. These congregations are often distinguished of this account from other branches of the same order. The custom of goin..
Discalced Carmelites
The Discalced Carmelites, or Barefoot Carmelites, is a Roman Catholic mendicant order. It was created in 1593, pursuant to the reform of the Carmelite Order by two Spanish saints, Teresa of Ávila and John of the Cross. The Discalced Carmelite order is now known by the initials "O.C.D." (The olde..
DISCARD
The DISCARD protocol is an internet protocol defined in RFC 863. It is intended for testing and measurement purposes. A host may send data to a host supports the DISCARD protocol, on either TCP or UDP port 9. Everything sent to the server is thrown away. No response is sent back. Current testing a..
Discaria
Discaria is a genus of about 12 species of flowering plants in the family Rhamnaceae, native to temperate regions of the Southern Hemisphere, in Australia, New Zealand and South America. They are deciduous thorny shrubs or small trees growing to 2-5 m tall. ..
DiscDrive
This is an article on the radio show. For the computer storage device, see disk storage. DiscDrive is the afternoon show on CBC Radio Two hosted by Jurgen Gothe. It plays a mix of classical, traditional bluegrass, jazz, and commentary. The name is a pun since the program is playing discs while li..
Discectomy
A discectomy is a surgical procedure in which an extravasated segment of the intervertebral disc, which is causing pain by stressing the spinal cord or radiating nerves, is dissected. A laminectomy is often involved to permit access to the intervertebral disc. See also Back painHernia ..
Discerning of spirits
Discerning (or Discernment) of spirits is an aspect of several different Catholic spiritualities. A major part of Ignatian, or Jesuit, spirituality, it is also important for Charismatics and Pentecostals. Contents 1 Scriptural Basis2 Ignatian View3 Charismatic View4 Extern..
Discernment
Discernment is a term used in the Catholic Church, and other Christian traditions to describe the process of ascertaining God's will for one's life. In most contexts (in Catholicism), it describes the interior search for an answer to the question of one's vocation, namely, determining whether or not..
Discernment of Spirits
Discernment of Spirits is a term in Roman Catholic theology to indicate judging various spiritual agents for their moral influence. These agents are: from within the human soul itself, known as concupiscenceDivine GraceAngelsDevils The first and the last being evil, and the second and third good, t..
Disch-Falk Field
Redirect [[Template:Infobox Stadium]] Disch-Falk Field is the baseball field of the University of Texas at Austin. It has been home to Texas Longhorn baseball since it was opened on February 17, 1975. On that day, the eventual NCAA national champion Longhorns swept a doubleheader from St. Mary's by..
Discharge
Discharge may refer to: A military discharge, issued when a member of the armed forces is released from service.Termination of employment.A patient discharge, when a patient leaves a hospital after his or her medical treatment is completed.An electrostatic or corona discharge, types of electrical ..
Discharger
A discharger is part of an electronic device that releases stored energy or electric charge from a battery or other source. ..
Discharge (band)
Discharge is an influential UK 82 hardcore band. Contents 1 Career2 ..
Discharge (hydrology)
In hydrology, the discharge of a river is the volume of water transported by it in a certain amount of time. The unit used is usually m3/s (cubic meters per second). For example, the average discharge of the Rhine river is 2200 m3/s. The greater the discharge of a river, the more ability it has to ..
Discharge ionization detector
A discharge ionization detector (DID) is a type of detector used in gas chromatography. Principle A DID is an ion detector which uses a high-voltage electric discharge to produce ions. The spark ionizes helium atoms that are mixed with components as they elute from the GC's column, causing the..
Discharge petition
A discharge petition is a means of bringing a bill out of committee and to the floor of the United States House of Representatives without the cooperation of the leadership. It requires the signature of 218 House members. Discharge petitions are often used when the chair of a committee doesn't wan..
Discharge pressure
Discharge pressure (also called high side pressure or head pressure) is the pressure generated on the output side of a gas compressor in a refrigeration or air conditioning system. The discharge pressure is affected by several factors: size and speed of the condenser fan, condition and cleanliness ..
Discharging arch
In architecture, a discharging arch is an arch built over a lintel or architrave to take off the superincumbent weight. The earliest example is found in the Great Pyramid, over the lintels of the entrance passage to the tomb: it consisted of two stones only, resting one against the other. The sam..
Dischidodactylus
Dischidodactylus is a genus of leptodactylid frogs. The common name is Mount Duida Frogs. These frogs are endemic to Venezuela. Species Dischidodactylus colonnelloi (Ayarzagüena, 1985).Dischidodactylus duidensis (Rivero, 1968). ..
Dischistodus
Dischistodus is a genus of fish in the family Pomacentridae. Species Dischistodus chrysopoecilus (Schlegel and Müller, 1839)Dischistodus darwiniensis (Whitley, 1928)Dischistodus fasciatus (Cuvier in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1830)Dischistodus melanotus (Bleeker, 1858)Dischistodus perspicillatus (..
Dischord Records
--> Dischord Records Parent company none (itself) Founded 1980 Founder Ian Mackaye Jeff Nelson Distributing label (digital) Genre(s) Hardcore PunkPunkPost-HardcoreEmo Country US Web address [Official site] Dischord Records is a Washington, D.C.-based independent ..
Discider
Discider is a punk band from Madison, Wisconsin that formed in September 2001. They started out as a four piece then a three piece and are currently a four piece. Their influences come from Discharge, Scandinavian punk, Peace punk and 1980's hardcore. They currently have two seven inchs and a cou..
DISCiPLE
DISCiPLE, Miles Gordon Technology's first product, was a floppy disk interface for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum home computer. Like Sinclair's own Interface 1, the DISCiPLE was a wedge-shaped unit fitting under the Spectrum. It was designed as a super-interface, providing all the facilities a Spectrum ..
Disciple
A disciple (from the Latin discipulus, a pupil) is one who receives instruction from another; a scholar; a learner; especially, a follower who has learned to believe in the truth of the doctrine of his teacher, and implies that the pupil is under the discipline of, and "understands", his teacher; an..
Disciples' Generous Response
A Disciple's Generous Response or Disciples' Generous Response was announced in April 2002 as the name given by the Community of Christ to a major rethinking of its stewardship theology and practices[A Disciple’s Generous Response], webpage, retrieved June 24, 2006. Based in part on teac..
Disciples: Sacred Lands
Disciples: Sacred Lands is a turn-based PC strategy game published by Strategy First in 1999. Set in a fantasy world known as the Sacred Lands, it was a battle for dominance between four races: The Empire (of the humans), the Mountain Clans (of the dwarves), the Legions of the Damned (of the demons..
DisciplesWorld
DisciplesWorld is the official magazine of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). It is circulated nationwide to both churches and private homes. The church's official magazine was formerly called The Disciple but they chose to change publishers and were forced to change the title for legal rea..
Disciples II: Dark Prophecy
Disciples II: Dark Prophecy is a PC game by Strategy First that was released on January 24 2002. The game is the sequel to the 1999 game [[Disciples: Sacred Lands]], and has become significantly more successful in terms of both sales and popularity than its predecessor. A limited edition version of..
Disciples of Apocalypse
The Disciples of Apocalypse (DOA) was a professional wrestling stable formed after Crush was "fired" from the Nation of Domination, so he formed the biker-like "gang" to fight the teams of the Nation and Savio Vega's Los Boricuas. Contents 1 History2 Members3 Managers4 Finishi..
Disciples of Confucius
Sima Qian makes Confucius say: The disciples who received my instructions, and could themselves comprehend them, were seventy-seven individuals. They were all scholars of extraordinary ability. The common saying is, that the disciples of the sage were three thousand, while among them there were seve..
Disciples of Ragnos
The Disciples of Ragnos was a cult of Dark Jedi in the Video Game [[Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy]]. It was led by Tavion Axmis, a young, female Dark Jedi. Contents 1 History1.1 Origin1.2 Gathering Information1.3 Gathering Dark Energy1.3.1 ..
Disciples of the 36th Chamber
Disciples of the 36th Chamber (Pi li shi jie) was a 1985 kung-fu film from the Shaw Brothers studio. The movie is a follow-up to the story of The 36th Chamber of Shaolin. External links ..
Disciples of the 36 Chambers: Chapter 1
Disciples of the 36 Chambers was a live album released in 2004 by the Wu-Tang Clan. It's actually just collection of Wu-Tang and Wu-Tang members greatest hits. It is a slightly edited recording of their set at the Summer 2004 Rock the Bells concert in San Bernardino, CA. Track listing Bring da Ru..
Disciples of The New Church
The Disciples of the New Church, also known as the New Church Disciples or simply The New Church, were a gothic professional wrestling stable in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling between 2002 and 2004. Members Manager: Minister Jim MitchellMaliceSlashBrian LeeKobainTempestMike AwesomeBella DonnaShane ..
Disciples of `Abdu'l-Bahá
Shoghi Effendi, Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith, designated nineteen Western Bahá'ís as Disciples of 'Abdu'l-Bahá and 'Heralds of the Covenant': Dr. John E. EsslemontThornton ChaseHoward MacNuttSarah FarmerHippolyte Dreyfuss-BarneyLillian KappesRobert TurnerDr. Arthus BraunsLua GetsingerJoseph H..
Disciple (album)
Disciple was the sixth album released by Christian rock group Disciple, on June 7, 2005. When the single The Wait is Over was released, it broke several records in Christian music, including the longest spot at No. 1 on the R&R Charts. "Into Black" is now the biggest hit of the album. Track list..
Disciple (band)
Disciple is a Christian metal band hailing from Knoxville, Tennessee. The band has released seven albums. Contents 1 History2 Members3 Discography4 Compilation Contributions5 Artist Videography6 External links History Disciple Disciple was formed in 1992 by hig..
Disciple whom Jesus loved
A small statue of Jesus and the Beloved Disciple The phrase the disciple whom Jesus loved or Beloved Disciple is used several times in the Gospel of John. It is the Beloved Disciple who asks Jesus during the Last Supper who it is that will betray him. In the Johannine account of the crucifix..
Disciplina
In Roman mythology, Disciplina was a minor deity and the personification of discipline. She was commonly worshipped by Imperial Roman Soldiers. Her meaning to them was both discipline as in self-control and determination, as well as discipline as in a field of study (soldiering in this case). Her c..
Disciplinary council
A disciplinary council in the context of Mormonism is a trial during which members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints may be excommunicated, or expelled, from the church for a number of different sins or misdeeds. Mormons may be excommunicated for actions ranging from adultery throu..
Disciplinary institutions
Disciplinary institutions (French [Institution disciplinaire]) is a concept proposed by Michel Foucault in Discipline and Punish (1975). Disciplinary institutions are specific to a group of technologies called by Foucault "disciplines". School, prison, barracks or the hospital are such e..
Disciplina Kičme
Disciplina Kičme, currently working under the slightly altered name of Disciplin A Kitschme, was one of two spin-offs of the seminal Belgrade post-punk/new-wave band Šarlo Akrobata, the other being Ekatarina Velika. Founded in 1982 by Dušan Kojić - Koja (bass and vocals), Disciplina Kičme was c..
Discipline
For other uses, see (disambiguation)}}}. Discipline is any training intended to produce a specific character or pattern of behaviour, especially training that produces moral or mental development in a particular direction. It is a widely held belief that most people, even those disinclined to harm ..
DISCIPLINE
For the main article on discipline, see discipline. For other uses of the term, see discipline (disambiguation). DISCIPLINE is Kompressor's third compact disc release. Track listing "YOU HAVE TO SYNTHESIZE""REPRESENT""DISCIPLINE WITH DRUM MACHINE""MUSIC INDUSTRY""KOMPRESSOR MIDDLE SCHOOL""YOU N..
Disciplined Breakdown
Disciplined Breakdown is the third studio album by Collective Soul, first released on March 11 1997. The album was recorded during a difficult time in the band's career, when they were going through a long lawsuit with their former management, and they also recorded the album in Cabin-like studio ..
Discipline (album)
Discipline is an album by the band King Crimson, released in 1981. The title of track 3, "Matte Kudasai", is Japanese for 'please wait for me'. The original release of Discipline featured only one version of "Matte Kudasai", with a guitar part by Robert Fripp that was removed from the track on a ..
Discipline (BDSM)
The use of rules and punishment to control overt behaviour. Punishment can be pain caused physically (such as caning), humiliation caused physically (such as a public flagellation) or loss of freedom caused physically (such as chaining the controlee to the foot of a bed, for snoring). Note the i..
Discipline (Cadaver Inc. album)
Discipline is the third album by the Norwegian death metal band Cadaver, but was released under the moniker Cadaver Inc. Track listing "Primal" (2:27)"Deliverance" (3:10)"Murderhead" (3:14)"Rupture" (3:21)"Die Like This" (3:42)"Point Zero" (4:10)"Killtech" (3:40)"Reptile Robots" (3:02)"Ma..
Discipline (disambiguation)
Discipline can refer to: Discipline, any training intended to produce a specific character or pattern of behaviouracademic discipline, a specific branch of knowledge or learning: see List of academic disciplines.a disciplinary implement, mainly used for penitential (self-)castigation by floggingDis..
Discipline (H-anime)
|} Discipline is a hentai anime from the creators of the Bible Black Series. It consists of 6 episodes. This anime is licensed by AMORZ Entertainment. Contents 1 Story2 Characters3 Episodes4 Links Story The story revolves around Takuro Hayami who transferred to the mostly..
Discipline (World of Darkness)
World of Darkness Vampire series Settings [[Vampire: The Dark Ages|Dark Ages]] [[Vampire: The Victorian Age|Victorian Age]] [[Vampire: The Masquerade|Masquerade]] [[Vampire: The Requiem|Requiem]] Mythology Caine · Lilith Book of Nod Revelations of the Dark Mother The Erciyes Fragment..
Discipline and Punish
Discipline and Punish (subtitled The Birth of the Prison) is a book written by the philosopher Michel Foucault. Originally published in 1975 in France under the title Surveiller et punir: Naissance de la prison, it was translated into English in 1977. It is an examination of the social and theoretic..
Discipline Global Mobile
Discipline Global Mobile, alias DGM, is a small independent record label company. It was started in 1992 by Robert Fripp from King Crimson. See also List of record labelsRobert FrippKing Crimson External links [Official site][Discipline Global Mobile.com] - the old website, stil..
Discipline Inspection Commission of the Communist Party of China
The Discipline Inspection Commission of the Communist Party of China or CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (中共中央纪律检查委员会; often abbreviated to 纪委) is the government body within the People's Republic of China charged with rooting out corruption and malfeasance a..
Discipline question
The discipline question is an open-ended question that appears on many American college applications. In addition to transcripts, recommendations, and college entrance exams, students are expected, on applications that present this "question" to submit descriptions of any disciplinary incidents thro..
DISCIPLINE REMIX CD
DISCIPLINE REMIX CD is a 2-CD set, and the final release by KOMPRESSOR. This 2-disc set contains 52 royalty-free audio tracks, which contain all sounds from album DISCIPLINE, and many WORLD DOMINATION/CRUSH TELEVISION songs, including drums, synthesizers, vocoder, vocals, and processed/acoustic sou..
Discipling a Whole Nation
DAWN is an international Christian organisation founded in the Philippines in 1974 and an acronym for Discipling a Whole Nation. DAWN's vision and work is centered on the Biblical command to "make disciples of all nations" (Matthew 28:19,20). External links [DAWN homepage][What is D..
Disciplinska komisija
Disciplinska komisija (The Disciplinary Commission) is a Bosnian rap group and its most prominent member is Edo Maajka; other members are Frenkie, Hamaz and Billy, as well as a few others. The group came to prominence through working with the radio station Kameleon and the FMJAM radio show, which..
DiscJuggler
DiscJuggler is a professional CD/DVD recording software program, able to duplicate multiple CDs at once with its ability to simultaneously drive multiple CD recorders, and accurately and reliably replicate virtually any existing standard CD. See also List of CD/DVD recording software External lin..
Disclaimer
This is a page discussing the concept of a disclaimer. For the Wikipedia disclaimer, please see [General disclaimer]. This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject.Please help recruit one, or improve this page yourself}} if you can. See [discussion pa..
Disclaimer (patent)
In patent law, a disclaimer is an amendment consisting in limiting a claim of a patent or patent application by introducing a negative technical feature. It typically consists in excluding from a general feature specific embodiments or areas. During prosecution, such amendments are sometimes made ..
Disclaimer II
Disclaimer II is the third album released by the band Seether. This disc is a recompilation of the band's second album, Disclaimer, from 2002. In Europe, the album includes four tracks more than its predecessor; in the United States, the album has eight extra tracks. In both releases, the featu..
Disclaimer of interest
Disclaimer of interest (also called a renunciation), in the law of inheritance, wills and trusts, is a term that describes an attempt by a person to renounce their legal right to benefit from an inheritance (either under a will or through intestacy) or through a trust. There are a number of reason..
Disclose
Disclose is a Japanese hardcore punk band, heavily influenced by Discharge. Disclose use the infamous d-beat drumming style. The sound heavily replicates Discharge's style, with an increased use of fuzz and distortion guitar effects. The subject matter is also similar to Discharge, in that the songs..
Disclosed fees
In business disclosed fees is debt and equity underwriting and advisory revenue reported by investment banks. See also Thomson Financial league tables ..
Disclosure
Disclosure means the giving out of information, either voluntarily or to be in compliance with legal regulations or workplace rules. Some disclosures could be contrary to law, custom, or even morality, such as the disclosure of a secret. See also full disclosure In journalism, full disclosure re..
Disclosure (film)
Disclosure is a 1994 thriller based on Michael Crichton's novel of the same name. The movie stars Michael Douglas and Demi Moore and is directed by Barry Levinson. Plot [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. Tom Sanders (Douglas) a brilliant analyst for the..
Disclosure (movie)
Beautiful, bright, and talented Meredith Johnson arrives at Digital Communications Technology company to become the head of a division, a position that Tom Sanders thought was going to be his. Meredith, his former lover, invites him to her office after hours and attempts to seduce him. When he rej..
Disclosure (novel)
Disclosure is a novel by Michael Crichton, released in 1994. The novel is set in a fictional high tech company, just before the beginning of the dot-com economic boom. The plot concerns protagonist, Tom Sanders, and his battle against unfounded allegations of sexual harassment. Contents 1&nbs..
Disclosure (Stargate SG-1)
"Disclosure" }||}}} }|episode list=|overridean=}} episode }|episode list=}} of the science fiction}}} television series Stargate SG-1}}}. Plot } During a meeting of members of different nations in the US-pentagon, Col. Chekov talks with the Chinese ambassador about a sunken U-boat. Suddenly General..
Discman
Discman was the nickname given to Sony's first portable CD player, the D-50, which was the first on the market, and adopted for Sony's entire portable CD player line. In Japan, all Discman products are referred to as "CD Walkman" and the name was adopted worldwide in 2000 along with a redesigned "W..
Disco
Disco is a genre of music that originated in discothèques. Generally the term refers to a specific style of music that has influences from funk, soul music, and salsa and the Latin or Hispanic musics which influenced salsa. Contents 1 Origins2 Popularity3 Popular disco artists4&..
Discobolus
Discobulos, London, British Museum Statue of discus thrower of Myron in Botanic Garden, Copenhagen, Denmark The so-called Discobolus of Myron is a famous sculpture from Greek antiquity. A discus thrower is depicted about to release his throw. The moment captured in the statue is known as..
Discocactus
Discocactus is a genus of tropical cactus. These species are in the risk of extinction in the wild. ..
Discocarpus
Discocarpus is a genus of the family Phyllanthaceae. It is a small genus with 3 species, which are found in Amazonia. ..
Discoclaoxylon
Discoclaoxylon is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae. ..
Discocleidion
Discocleidion is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae. ..
Discodeles
Discodeles is a genus of true frogs. Species Discodeles bufoniformis (Boulenger, 1884).Discodeles guppyi (Boulenger, 1884).Discodeles malukuna Brown & Webster, 1969.Discodeles opisthodon (Boulenger, 1884).Discodeles vogti (Hediger, 1934). ..
Discodermolide
Chemical name (+)-Discodermolide Chemical formula C33H55NO8 Molecular mass 593.79 g/mol CAS number 127943-53-7 Melting point 112-113 °C SMILES O=C1[C@H](C)[C@@H](O)[C@@H](C)[C@H](C[C@H](O)/C=C\[C@H](C)[C@H](O)..
Discodirect
discodirect Popular UK entertainment service. Member of [djsunited] Associated Links DJ VJ Karaoke Mobile DJ ..
Discoglossidae
Discoglossidae, common name Disc-Tongued Frogs or Painted Frogs, is a family that contains two genera, alytes and discoglossus. The former are somewhat toad-like and can often be found on land. The latter is smoother and more frog-like, preferring the water. Both are generally found in Europe and ..
Discoglossus
Discoglossus is a genus of frogs in the Discoglossidae family, and are found in southern Europe, northwestern Africa, Israel and perhaps Syria. Species Discoglossus galganoi Capula, Nascetti, Lanza, Bullini & Crespo, 1985.Discoglossus jeanneae Busack, 1986.Discoglossus montalenti Lanza, Nascetti..
Discoglypremna
Discoglypremna is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae. ..
Discography
The article is about sound recordings. For the Pet Shop Boys album, see [[Discography: The Complete Singles Collection]]. Discography is the study and listing of sound recordings. This portmanteau word stems from: the gramophone record, often called a "disc", the dominant commercial medium of sou..
Discography: The Complete Singles Collection
Discography: The Complete Singles Collection is the sixth album by the UK electronic music group Pet Shop Boys. It was first released in 1991. As the name suggests, Discography is a collection of all of the hit singles by Pet Shop Boys up to that point (1991), alongside two new tracks "DJ culture..
Discography '93-'99
Discography '93-'99 is a career-spanning compilation of tracks by Lethargy, a Rochester, New York-based mathcore band. Contents 1 Track listing1.1 Disc one1.2 Disc two1.3 Notes Track listing Disc one Subtle (3:29)Stitch (3:43)Little Man (2:59)Image Tool (4:32)Grope (4:10)Care..
Discography of Luis Miguel
This is a discography page for famous worldwide Mexican singer, Luis Miguel. Contents 1 Major Releases2 Compilations/Box Sets3 Singles4 Videos Major Releases [[Mexico En La Piel: Edicion Diamante|Mexico en la piel: edicion diamante]] (2005)Mexico en la piel (2004)33 (2003)Mis..
Discogs
Discogs, short for discographies, is a website and database of information about music recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and certain bootleg or off-label releases. The Discogs servers, currently hosted under the domain name discogs.com, are owned by Zink Media, Inc., ..
Discoid cockroach
The discoid cockroach is also commonly called the false death's head cockroach. This species of roach lives in tropical South America. They can grow up to 3 in long and although they have wings as adults, they do not fly. They also can not climb smooth surfaces such as glass. These two charac..
Discoid lupus erythematosus
For discoid lupus erythematosus in humans, see lupus erythematosus and the cutaneous signs listed for that disease. Discoid lupus erythematosus (DLE) is an uncommon autoimmune disease of the skin in dogs. It is rare in cats. It does not progress to systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in dogs. SLE..
Discolampa ethion
Banded Blue Pierrot Discolampa ethion is a beautiful butterfly found in South Asia that belongs to the Blues or Lycaenidae family. Range South Asia. References Evans, W.H. (1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies. (2nd Ed), Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, IndiaGay, Thomas; Kehi..
Discomedusae
This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject.Please help recruit one, or improve this page yourself}} if you can. See [discussion page] for details. Discomedusae is a taxonomic group (subclass of the Scyphozoa) of jellyfish. Gallery Image:Haeckel Dis..
Discommendation
In the fictional Star Trek universe, Discommendation (in Klingon, naDHa'ghach) is a declaration by the Klingon High Council that an individual Klingon and his family are dishonored. Those who have been discommended are considered pariahs and traitors. They lose nearly all their rights under Klingo..
Discomycetes
Discomycetes is a former taxonomic class of Ascomycete fungi which contains all of the cup, sponge, brain, and club-like fungi such as the truffle and swamp beacon, but the new taxonomic and molecular data have failed to support their affinity. A common feature of Discomycetes are the asci which pr..
Discone antenna
Mounted discone antenna designed for VHF and UHF coverage. Discone made of solid copper sheets, theoretically covering 700Mhz to 2Ghz. A discone antenna is a version of a biconical antenna where one of the cones is replaced by a disc. It is usually mounted in vertical orientation, with ..
Disconfirmation bias
Disconfirmation bias refers to the tendency for people to extend critical scrutiny to information which contradicts their prior beliefs and accept uncritically information that is congruent with their prior beliefs. This cognitive bias is closely related to confirmation bias, which is the tendency ..
Disconnected
For other uses, see (disambiguation)}}}. Disconnected is an album by the German IDM group Funkstörung. It was released on March 29, 2004, and was the first album of the duo to feature real pop songs with singing vocals. The CD's jewel case was packed in a partly translucent sleeve, with the inlay..
Disconnected (album)
Disconnected is Dry Cell's album that ended up not being released. Track listing "Slip Away" – (3:56)"Under The Sun" – (3:30)"Body Crumbles" – (3:03)"Last Time" – (3:10)"Sorry" – (3:31)"Silence" – (3:01)"So Long Ago" – (3:42)"Forever Beautiful" – (2:..
Disconnected (disambiguation)
Disconnected may refer to: Disconnected, an album by the German IDM group FunkstörungDisconnected, a song by Idlewild from their album Warnings/PromisesThis is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you..
Disconnected (Fates Warning album)
Disconnected is the ninth album by the progressive metal group Fates Warning, released in 2000 (see 2000 in music). Kevin Moore previously played on the Fates Warning album A Pleasant Shade of Grey and in OSI with Matheos. Track listing "Disconnected Part 1""One""So""Pieces of Me""Something From..
Disconnection
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Disconnection Notice
Disconnection Notice is the fifth official album by Goldfinger. It was released on February 15, 2005. Track listing "My Everything""Wasted""Ocean Size""Uncomfortable""Too Many Nights""Damaged""Behind The Mask""I Want""Iron Fist""Walk Away""Faith""Stalker" Notes Track No. 1, "My Everything", was f..
Disconnect Records
Disconnect Records is a local punk record label from Hobart in Tasmania, Australia. External link [Official site] ..
Discontinuation
Discontinuation is when a product's manufacture and/or support are stopped by the company that makes the product. This is usually due to low sales, but it does not mean the product never sold well. Many high selling products eventually see a drop in sales and eventual discontinuation, usually after..
Discontinued merit badges (Boy Scouts of America)
redirect[[Template:Portal]]This is a list of merit badges that the Boy Scouts of America formerly offered. In some cases, the entire subject has been dropped from the merit badge roster. In others, the merit badge's name has been changed, with or without significant revision to the badge's require..
Discontinuity
Discontinuity is a mathematical term. See classification of discontinuities.Discontinuity is also used in philosophy, mainly to oppose the notion of a continuous progress of science, which would always develop in an unidirectional way. This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list ..
Discontinuity (Postmodernism)
For Michel Foucault (1926-84), discontinuity and continuity reflect the flow of history and the fact that some, "things are no longer perceived, described, expressed, characterised, classified, and known in the same way" from one era to the next. (1994). Explanation In developing the theory of arch..
Discontinuity view
The discontinuity view emphasizes change and growth in relationships over time. As people grow up, they develop many different types of relationships. Each of these relationships is structurally different. With each new type of relationship, individuals encounter new modes of relating. For exam..
Discontinuous Controller Mode: Neutral Zone
Please [Glossary#Wwikify] (format) this article or section as suggested in the [Guide to layoutGuide to layout] and the [Manual of StyleManual of Style]. Remove this template after wikifying. This article has been tagged since June 2006. Discontinuous Controller Mo..
Discontinuous linear map
In mathematics, linear maps form an important class of "simple" functions which preserve the algebraic structure of linear spaces and are often used as approximations to more general functions (see linear approximation). If the spaces involved are also topological spaces (that is, topological vecto..
Discontinuous Reception
Discontinous Reception (DRX) is a method used in mobile communication to conserve the battery of the mobile device. The mobile device and the network negotiate phases in which data transfer happens. During other times the device turns its receiver off and enters a low power state. See also Discon..
Discontinuous Transmission
Discontinuous transmission (DTX) is a method of momentarily powering-down, or muting, a mobile or portable wireless telephone set when there is no voice input to the set. This optimizes the overall efficiency of a wireless voice communications system. In a typical two-way conversation, each individ..
Disconvenience
Disconvenience is a punk band from Umeå in Northern Sweden. Members Emma Swanström (bass guitar + vocals)Viktor ? (drums)Rickard Lundberg (guitar) Former members: Nina Lundberg: (drums + backing vocals) Discography War on Wankers EP 2005Umeå Punk City LP/CD 2006External link [Official websi..
Discophoros
The Discophoros, also spelled Discophorus, meaning "Discus-Bearer" is one of the figure's in according to the Classical Greek sculptor Polyclitus. It's so known like the so called Doryphoros and Diadumenos. Designed as an example of the "canon" the sculptor developed in the hopes of increasing th..
Discopolis
Discopolis is the sixth studio album by the Finnish rock group CMX. With Discopolis, CMX took a different approach on recording with the goal of making the first entirely ProTools-based album in Finland. The basic concept was to build the songs from small pieces, emphasizing editing and productio..
Discord
[[wiktionary:Discord|The word discord]] is a noun in the English language used to refer to things that clash or disagree. It has several uses in different fields. In music, discord refers to harmony containing perceived dissonances.In geology, a discordant coastline is formed when the sea erodes la..
Discordance Axis
Discordance Axis Discordance Axis were a grindcore band with high-pitched screaming & low grunted vocals, superfast drumming and creative guitar work. Contents 1 Bio2 Lineup2.1 Former members3 Discography4 External link Bio The band was founded in 1992. Rather tha..
Discordant coastline
A discordant coastline is a type of coastline formed when rock types of alternating resistance run perpendicular to the shore. Discordant coastlines feature distinctive landforms because the rocks are eroded by ocean waves. The less resistant rocks erode faster, creating inlets or bays; the more ..
Discordianism
Discordianism is a modern, chaos-based religion founded in either 1958 or 1959. It has been described as both an elaborate joke disguised as a religion, and as a religion disguised as an elaborate joke. Some of its followers make the claim that it is "a religion disguised as a joke disguised as a ..
Discordian calendar
Page 00034 of the Principia Discordia, explaining the POEE calendar The Discordian or Erisian calendar is an alternative calendar used by some adherents of Discordianism. It is specified on page 00034 of the Principia Discordia (although additional holidays or "holydays" are listed in other D..
Discordian Works
The most famous Discordian works are probably Principia Discordia, first published in 1965 (which includes portions of The Honest Book of Truth); and The Illuminatus! Trilogy, which had its first volume published in 1975. There is also Zen Without Zen Masters, which looks at Zen and Discordianism, b..
Discordia (album)
Discordia is the second album by Maryland death metal band Misery Index. The vinyl version of the album features a cover of Nasum's Digging In as a bonus track. Track listing "Unmarked Graves" – 4:47"Conquistadores" – 3:36"Outsourcing Jehovah" – 2:52"Breathing Pestilence" &ndas..
Discos and Dragons (Freaks and Geeks episode)
Freaks and Geeks episode "Discos and Dragons" Episode No. 18 Prod. Code 113 Airdate July 8, 2000 Writer(s) Paul Feig Director Paul Feig List of all Freaks and Geeks episodes... "Discos and Dragons" is the eighteenth and final episode of Freaks and Geeks. It was written and d..
Discos Taxco
Discos Taxco was a mid 20th century record label specializing in Mexican music. The label was mostly marketed in Mexico, but was manufactured in Los Angeles, California, in the United States of America. It was owned by a man called William Castillo. See also List of record labels External link &#..
Discothèque
A discothèque (or discoteque) is an entertainment venue or club with recorded music, played by "Discaires" (Disk jockeys), rather than an on-stage band. The word derives from the French word discothèque (a type of nightclub). Discothèque is a portmanteau coined around 1941 from disc and bibliot..
Discothèque (song)
Pop Album Listing (beginning of album) "Discothèque"(Track 1) "Do You Feel Loved"(Track 2) The Best of 1990-2000 Album Listing "The Hands That Built America"(Track 11) "Discothèque"(Track 12) "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me"(Track 13) "Discothèque" is a single by the Irish rock band..
Discotheque CVB: Live In Chicago
Discotheque CVB: Live In Chicago is a 2004 live album by Camper Van Beethoven recorded at Metro in Chicago on October 29, 2004. Track listing "Eye of Fatima (part 1)""Eye of Fatima (part 2)""Sad Lover's Waltz""Might Makes Right""The Long Plastic Hallway""Hippy Chix""That Gum You Like Is Back In Sty..
Discount
See also Discounts and allowances. In finance, discounting is the process of finding the current value of an amount of cash at some future date, and along with compounding cash from the basis of time value of money calculations. The discounted value of a cash flow is determined by reducing its val..
Discounted cash flow
In finance, the discounted cash flow (or DCF) approach describes a method to value a project or an entire company. The DCF methods determine the present value of future cash flows by discounting them using the appropriate cost of capital. This is necessary because cash flows in different time period..
Discounted utility
Discounted utility is an economics term in which economists, accountants, underwriters, and other financial analysts include the future discounted value of a good into its present value. This can be thought of as valuing goods with low depreciation more than disposable goods. Such value calculation..
Discounts and allowances
Discounts and allowances are reductions to a basic price. They could modify either the manufacturer's list price (determined by the manufacturer and often printed on the package), the retail price (set by the retailer and often attached to the product with a sticker), or the list price (which is quo..
Discount (band)
Discount was a punk rock band from Vero Beach, Florida that formed in 1995 and disbanded in 2000. They released three full length albums, several EPs, and two b-side collections. Members have gone on to form The Kills, The Kitchen, Black Cougar Shock Unit, the Routineers, and Monikers. Contents ..
Discount brokerage
A discount brokerage is a business that helps clients buy and sell securities on a stock exchange but usually with smaller fees in comparison to regular brokerages. Discount brokerages are able to offer smaller fees since they often offer comparatively fewer services, and or financial advice. See ..
Discount Drug Mart
Discount Drug Mart is a retailer in the United States that operates a chain of 63 drug stores throughout the state of Ohio. The company was founded, and the first store opened, in Elyria, Ohio in 1969. Its headquarters are now located in Medina, Ohio. History The first Discount Drug Mart was open..
Discount function
A discount function is used in economic models to describe the weights placed on rewards received at different points in time. For example, if time is discrete and utility is time-separable, with the discount function [f(t)] then total utility is given by [U(\_^\infty)=\sum_^\..
Discount rate
The term discount rate is used in several different contexts: Contents 0.1 Credit cards0.2 Mathematical Discount Rate0.3 Monetary Policy0.4 Project Valuation0.5 Economics1 External links Credit cards The discount rate is a percentage of the dollar amount of the tra..
Discount window
Discount window refers to the practice by a central bank of extending short-term loans secured by government bonds to financial institutions. The interest rate charged on such loans—or discount rate, an important factor in the control of money supply—is set as a matter of monetary polic..
Discouraged Ones
Discouraged Ones is the third full-length album by Katatonia. While most of the band's previous efforts included distorted or screamed vocals, Discouraged Ones, and all of the band's subsequent releases, exclusivly feature clean vocals by Jonas Renkse. Track listing "I Break""Stalemate""Deadhous..
Discouraged worker
In economics, a discouraged worker is a person of legal employment age who is not actively seeking employment. This is usually due to giving up looking, or no success looking, hence the term "discouraged." Discouraged workers are not considered to be part of the labor force and are thus not counte..
Discourse
Discourse is a term used in semantics as in discourse analysis, but it also refers to a social conception of discourse, often linked with the work of French philosopher Michel Foucault (1926-1984) and Jürgen Habermas' The Theory of Communicative Action (1985). Each thinker had personal conceptions ..
Discourses on Livy
Niccolò Machiavelli is primarily known as the author of The Prince. His Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio (Discourses on Livy, written in 1513-1517 and published posthumously in 1531) is in many ways a different (and certainly much longer) work, although how different it actually is has be..
Discourse analysis
Discourse analysis (DA), or discourse studies, is a general term for a number of approaches to analyzing written, spoken or signed language use. The term discourse analysis first entered general use as the title of a paper published by Zellig Harris in 1952, although that paper did not yet offer a ..
Discourse community
The term discourse community links the terms discourse, a concept describing all forms of communication that contribute to a particular, institutionalized way of thinking; and community, which in this case refers to the people who use and therefore help create a particular discourse. Some examples..
Discourse connective
In linguistics, a discourse connective is a word or phrase like "therefore" or "in other words" that links parts of a discourse and shows their relationship. Common English language discourse connectives indicate that the upcoming text adds more information ("moreover"), contrasts with previous inf..
Discourse ethics
Discourse ethics, sometimes called "argumentation ethics," refers to a type of argument that attempts to establish normative or ethical truths by examining the presuppositions of discourse. Socialist approaches German philosophers Jürgen Habermas and Karl-Otto Apel are probably properly considere..
Discourse marker
In discourse analysis, a discourse marker is a word or phrase that marks a boundary in a discourse, typically as part of a dialogue. Discourse markers often signal the introduction of a new topic. Common discourse markers used in the English language include "you know", "actually", "basically", "li..
Discourse on holiness
The discourse on holiness forms the concluding part of the Sermon on the Mount, following immediately from the discourse on judgementalism. Like many other parts of the Sermon, it consists of a series of sayings followed by a brief explanation, and many of the sayings appear also in the Gospel of Lu..
Discourse on Inequality
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality, written for the Académie de Dijon in 1754, is an attempt to answer the question "What is the origin of inequality among men, and is it authorized by natural law?" Rousseau had won a previous competition with his 1st Discourse and was not to be so luc..
Discourse on judgementalism
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Discourse on Metaphysics
The Discourse on Metaphysics (Discours de métaphysique, 1686) is a short (60 pages in translation) book by Gottfried Leibniz in which he develops a philosophy concerning physical substance, motion and resistance of bodies, and God's role within the universe. It is divided into 37 chapters. His foun..
Discourse on Method
Discourse on Method The Scientific Method How to think correctly All have common sense Method:How to think Moral Maxims Obey local customs Proof of God & Soul What is perfect? Physics, heart & soul Mind-Body Dualism Experiments Experiment if complex The Discourse on Metho..
Discourse on ostentation
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Discourse on the Arts and Sciences
A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, more commonly known as the Discourse on the Arts and Sciences (French: Discours sur les sciences et les arts), is an essay by French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau arguing that the development of the arts and sciences had corrupted hum..
Discourse particle
In linguistics, a discourse particle is a lexeme or particle which has no semantic meaning in the context of a sentence, having rather a pragmatic function: it serves to indicate the speaker's attitude, or to structure their relationship to other participants in a conversation. Discourse particles..
Discourse Representation Theory
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Discover
Discover is the name for multiple things: Discover Card, a credit card operated by Discover BankDiscover, an American science magazineDiscover the World of Money, a biennial publication by the American Numismatic Association See also: Discovery. This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] p..
DISCover
DISCover is a technology that allows drag-and-drop play of PC games on a video game console/multimedia center. It attempts to bring games console user-friendliness to the PC games market. Alienware is the foremost manufacturer of DISCover-based systems. DISCover made its debut at the 2004 Consume..
Discovered attack
In chess, a discovered attack is an attack revealed when one piece moves out of the way of another. The discovered check is a special case of this, where the unmasked attack is a check (conceivably, the piece moving away can also give check; in that case a double check results). Discovered attacks ..
Discoverer's Day
Discoverer's Day is celebrated on the second Monday of October in Hawaii; it honors Captain James Cook as the first European to document Hawaiian society. Discoverer's Day is a commemorative public holiday of the state of Hawaii in the United States, observed on the second Monday of each Octob..
Discoverers Web
Discoverers Web is a website in which Andre Engels, the maintainer of the site says: [He tries] to gather all kinds of information found on the web about voyages of discovery and exploration. External links [Official website] ..
Discoverer of the Americas
The role of discoverer of the Americas is variously attributed to the following people, depending on context and definition: Native Americans, the first people to live in America (see Paleo-Indians, Clovis Culture, Models of migration to the New World, Pre-Siberian American Aborigines);Viking explo..
Discoveries
Discoveries can refer to the following: Plural of discoveryExplorationsA work by William Butler Yeats, written in 1907Discoveries, a book by Robertson Davies, published in 2002 redirect[[Template:Disambig]]..
Discoveries (Robertson Davies)
Discoveries, published by McClelland and Stewart in 2002, is a collection of letters written by Canadian novelist Robertson Davies. In Discoveries, Judith Skelton Grant provides a selection of letters written by Davies from the period starting in 1938 until 1975. The letters touch on various subjec..
Discoveries of the chemical elements
The story of the discoveries of the chemical elements is presented here in chronological order. The elements are listed generally in the order in which they were first isolated as the pure element, rather than as a compound (some such as boron were known to be elements decades before they could be i..
Discovering the Language of Jesus
Discovering the Language of Jesus: Hebrew or Aramaic? was written by Douglas Hamp and published by Calvary Chapel Publishing in 2005. The book challenges the commonly held assumption that the language of Jesus was Aramaic. Mel Gibson's movie The Passion of the Christ raised the question for many peo..
Discovering the Waterfront
Discovering the Waterfront is the second full-length album released by the Emocore band Silverstein Track listing "Your Sword vs. my Dagger" (2:58)"Smile in your Sleep" (3:13)"The Ides of March" (3:27)"Fist Wrapped in Blood" (2:57)"Discovering the Waterfront" (4:45)"Defend you" (3:28)"My Heroi..
DiscoveRx
DiscoveRx Private Founded 2000 Location Fremont, California Key people Pyare Khanna, Ph.D. (President and CEO)Richard Eglen, Ph.D. (CSO) Industry manufacturing Products biochemical and cell-based assays Revenue not available Website http://www.discoverx.com/ DiscoverRx deve..
Discovery
Discovery may refer to: Discovery (observation), observing or finding something unknown to one's cultureDiscovery (law), a process in courts of lawDiscovery (fiction), a character's learning something unknownDiscovery (Electric Light Orchestra album)Discovery (Mike Oldfield album)Discovery (Daft P..
Discovery-Spring Garden, Maryland
Discovery-Spring Garden is a census-designated place in Frederick County, Maryland, United States. It is the combination of the two communities of Discovery and Spring Garden. As of the 2000 census, the population was 2,152. Geography Discovery-Spring Garden is located at [39°27′50″N, 77..
Discovery (1602 ship)
Discovery was a 40-ton "fly-boat" of the British East India Company, launched before 1602. She took part in six expeditions in search of the Northwest Passage. Discovery was the smallest of three ships that were led by Captain Christopher Newport on the voyage that resulted in the founding of Ja..
Discovery (cruise ship)
Discovery (formerly Island Venture, Island Princess, Hyundai Pungak and Platinum) is a cruise ship, currently in operation with Discovery Cruises Contents 1 History2 Statistics3 External links4 References History The ship began operation in 1972 with Flagship Cruises, under..
Discovery (Daft Punk album)
Discovery is the 2001 sophomore album by Daft Punk. It marks a shift in the sound from the Chicago house that they were previously known for to disco-style synth-pop, a notably jarring move for fans of Homework. The immediate change in aesthetic initially caused some critics to pan the album, but ..
Discovery (Electric Light Orchestra album)
Discovery is a 1979 album by Electric Light Orchestra. The album contained four major hits with "Shine a Little Love", "Confusion", "Don't Bring Me Down" and "Last Train to London", all of which were very disco-like. (Fans jokingly referred to the album as "Disco? Very.") "Don't Bring Me Down" was..
Discovery (law)
Civil Procedure Federal Rules of Civil ProcedureCivil Procedure Rules 1998Doctrines of civil procedureJurisdiction* Subject matter jurisdiction* Personal jurisdiction* Proper venue** Change of venue** Forum non conveniens* RemovalPleadings and motions* Service of process* Complaint** Cause of ac..
Discovery (Magazine)
Discovery Magazine is the inflight magazine available for free to all passengers on Cathay Pacific flights. It is published monthly and can be found in the seatback pockets of every seat on Cathay Pacific aircraft. Passengers can take the magazine with them when they disembark their flights. Each ..
Discovery (Mike Oldfield album)
Discovery is a record album written and mostly performed by Mike Oldfield. It was his 9th new album. Singers on the album are Maggie Reilly and Barry Palmer. Simon Phillips plays drums. Track listing "To France" - (4:37)"Poison Arrows" - (3:57)"Crystal Gazing" - (3:02)"Tricks Of The Light" - (3:52..
Discovery (observation)
A discovery is a novel observation, usually of a natural phenomenon. Contrast with: invention, technique, theory Contents 1 Historical discoveries1.1 ..
Discovery (Shanice album)
Discovery was Shanice Wilson's first album. It was released 1987 when she was only fourteen years old, and features the singles "(Baby Tell Me) Can You Dance," "No 1/2 Steppin'", "The Way You Love Me," and "I'll Bet She's Got A Boyfriend." Track listing "I Think I Love You" (3:39)"No 1/2 Steppin'..
Discovery (TV series)
Discovery was a documentary television series produced by Duncan Dallas, Yorkshire Television. It was first shown in England in 1974. The first episode was about the post-encephalitic patients described by the neurologist Oliver Sacks (see Awakenings). The documentary won a Red ribbon at the 1978 A..
Discovery Bay
For other places with the same name, see (disambiguation). Discovery Bay (DB; Chinese: 愉景灣; Cantonese IPA: [jy11 kɪŋ35 wɑn55], Jyutping: jyu4 ging2 waan1, Yale: yùh gíng wān; Mandarin Pinyin: Yújǐng Wān) is a residential development in Hong Kong, located on the north-easter..
Discovery Bay, California
Discovery Bay is a census-designated place (CDP) in Contra Costa County, California in the USA. The population was 8,981 at the 2000 census. Geography Discovery Bay is located at [37°54′23″N, 121°36′24″W] (37.906386, -121.606622)[Geographic references#1GR1]. Accordin..
Discovery Bay, South Australia
Discovery Bay is a small bay bordering South Australia and Victoria. It is connected to Port MacDonnell and Nelson. ..
Discovery Bay, Washington
Discovery Bay is an unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Washington. The community is located along Discovery Bay, which is named after the Discovery, a ship used by George Vancouver. Discovery Bay is a mix of residential areas and a few restaurants and stores serving drivers and truckers..
Discovery Bay (disambiguation)
Discovery Bay may refer to the following places: Discovery Bay, CaliforniaDiscovery Bay, Hong KongDiscovery Bay, JamaicaDiscovery Bay, South AustraliaDiscovery Bay, Washington This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referre..
Discovery Bay Tunnel
The Discovery Bay Tunnel (愉景灣隧道) is a toll tunnel that links Discovery Bay Road at Yi Pak Au to Cheung Tung Road at Siu Ho Wan beside the North Lantau Highway. The tunnel was built for the Discovery Bay residential development on the north-eastern coast of Lantau Island, Hong Kong. It ..
Discovery Bridge
The Discovery Bridge was built to replace the Old St. Charles Bridge. See also List of crossings of the Missouri River ..
Discovery Center of Springfield
Discovery Center of Springfield in Springfield, Missouri, is an interactive hands-on science center for kids. It is located at 438 St. Louis Street. The Discovery Center offers a variety of exhibits including the Beehive which allows visitors to see the activity within a living bee colony. Other ..
Discovery Channel
Discovery Channel is a property of Discovery Communications primarily packaged as a network entertainment brand distributed in virtually every pay-television market in the world. The network brand is primarily known for its variety of science programming, particularly documentaries and nature s..
Discovery Channel Canada
Discovery Channel Canada is a Canadian cable television specialty channel devoted to science and nature programming. It started broadcasting on 1 January 1995. It had been owned by NetStar Communications Inc. In 2000-3-4, CRTC approved CTV Inc. to acquire an 80% voting interest in NetStar Communi..
Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team
Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team (UCI Team Code: DSC) is a US-based professional road bicycle racing team. It is the continuation of the 2004 US Postal Service Pro Cycling Team. Lance Armstrong, seven time Tour de France winner, was its leader (albeit only during the Tour) until July 2005. Since ..
Discovery Channel Telescope
Discovery channel Telescope The Discovery Channel Telescope (DCT) is Lowell Observatory’s newest project to design and construct a powerful, 4.2-meter telescope 40 miles southeast of Flagstaff, Arizona at a site location known as Happy Jack. Currently under development in partnership with Discove..
Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge
The Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC) is an annual science and engineering research and exhibit competition for students in grade 5 through 8 created in 1999. Competitors must qualify for DCYSC by entering an International Science and Engineering (ISEF) affiliated science fair and..
Discovery Civilization Channel
Discovery Civilization Channel is a Canadian category 2 digital cable television channel owned by Bell Globemedia in partnership with Discovery Communications with programming about the history of human civilization. External link [Official Site] ..
Discovery Communications
''See also Discovery Channel Discovery Communications Inc. (DCI) is an American global media and entertainment company that began as a single channel, the Discovery Channel, launched in 1985. Today, DCI has global operation offering 21 network entertainment brands on over 100 channels in over 160 ..
Discovery Cove
Discovery Cove is an Orlando, Florida theme park where guests can interact with a variety of marine animals, most notably bottlenose dolphins. The park, which is operated by the Busch Entertainment Corporation (the theme park division of Anheuser-Busch) is adjacent to SeaWorld Orlando. In addition ..
Discovery Cruise Line
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Discovery Day
Discovery Day is celebrated in only two provinces in Canada. Newfoundland and Labrador celebrates Discovery Day on June 24. Yukon celebrates it on the third Monday of August. In Yukon, Discovery Day is a public holiday commemorating the anniversary of the discovery of gold in 1896, which started th..
Discovery Elementary School
Discovery Elementary is a public elementary school in Surrey, British Columbia part of School District 36 Surrey. ..
Discovery en Español
Discovery en Español is the Spanish language version of the Discovery Channel. It is operated by Discovery Networks International's Latin America division in Miami. Discovery en Español offers Spanish-speaking audiences of all ages the very best in nonfiction entertainment including nature, sci..
Discovery Expedition
Discovery Expedition (1901 - 1904) Robert Falcon Scott headed this Antarctica expedition, spending two winters on Ross Island and treks to the South Pole. Contents 1 First season2 Second season3 See also4 Further reading5 External links First season The RRS Discovery ..
Discovery HD Theater
Discovery HD Theater is a high definition network from Discovery Communications Inc. owners of the Discovery Channel. It launched nation-wide in 2002 and is now the most widely distributed basic cable hd network. Discovery HD Theater is the only 24-hour high definition network from the people who..
Discovery Health Channel
Discovery Health Channel (or DHC), launched on August 2, 1999, is a U.S. cable television network dedicated to programming that highlights various aspects of health and wellness (and unwellness as well). The network is a media property of Discovery Communications Inc., the parent company of other ..
Discovery Health Channel Canada
Discovery Health Channel Canada is a Canadian category 1 digital cable television channel with programming based on human health issues. The channel is a joint venture between Alliance Atlantis and Discovery Communications. It was launched on August 15, 2001. External link [Official Site�..
Discovery Holding Company
Discovery Holding Company (NASDAQ: [DISCa], NASDAQ: [DISCb]) is a company headquartered in Englewood, Colorado, USA, that oversees and manages Ascent Media Group, Inc. and holds a 50% ownership stake in Discovery Communications, Inc. (DCI). Discovery Holding Company's CEO, J..
Discovery Home
Discovery Home is a television network on satellite TV and digital cable TV in the U.S. Run by Discovery Communications (which runs the Discovery Channel), it is the main competitor to HGTV. It offers programming ranging from do-it-yourself to cooking to interior design/landscaping. See also E..
Discovery Home & Health
Discovery Home & Health is a television channel broadcast in the UK. Launched as part of the Discovery Channels boquet of channels, as Discovery Health, following a similar format to the American channel of the same name. It was rebranded on the 7th May 2005 to it's current name, and relaunched as ..
Discovery Institute
Part of the series on Intelligent design Concepts Irreducible complexity Specified complexity Fine-tuned universe Intelligent designer Theistic realism Intelligent design movement Discovery Institute Center for Science and Culture Wedge strategy Critical Analysis of Evolution Teach the..
Discovery Island
Discovery Island is an 11½-acre landfill in Bay Lake at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida. It opened as "Treasure Island" on April 8, 1974, and was a place to observe wildlife. It was closed to the public on April 8, 1999, but continued to operate until July 9 1999, at which point ..
Discovery Island, British Columbia
Discovery Island is located off the eastern side of Vancouver Island and is viewable from 10 Mile Point, Cadboro Bay, and Oak Bay. ..
Discovery Islands
The Discovery Islands are the islands in the Discovery Passage between Vancouver Island and the mainland in British Columbia. These islands are sometimes considered to be part of the Northern Gulf Islands. The Discovery Passage starts where the Strait of Georgia narrows at Quadra Island and Cortes ..
Discovery Island (Disney)
Discovery Island is an area at Walt Disney World's Animal Kingdom in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Discovery Island is the main hub of Animal Kingdom. It also houses the Tree of Life and It's Tough to be a Bug. There are also gift shops and food available in the land. Contents 1 Area facts..
Discovery Island Marine Provincial Park
Discovery Island Marine Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada located about two nautical miles east of Oak Bay. It is about a mile long and one-half mile wide. You can only access Discover Island by boat. You can see it from Willows Beach. On the east side of the island on..
Discovery Kids
Discovery Kids Channel is a digital cable television channel, owned by Discovery Communications with programming for education of children. Discovery Kids broadcasts a Saturday morning "E/I" programming lineup for children called Discovery Kids on NBC, which began running in September of 2002. Its ..
Discovery Kids Canada
Discovery Kids is a Canadian category 2 digital cable television channel with educational programming for children such as Girlz TV, Popular Mechanics for Kids, Magic School Bus and more. It is owned by Corus Entertainment in partnership with Discovery Communications. External link [Official ..
Discovery learning
redirect [[Template:Not verified]] Discovery Learning is a method of inquiry-based instruction. Discovery learning takes place in problem solving situations where the learner draws on his own experience and prior knowledge to discover the truths that are to be learned. Discovery learning is a metho..
Discovery Mine
The Discovery Mine was a gold mine 81 kilometers northeast (approx bearing of 15 degrees) of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories that operated between 1950 and 1969. Gold was discovered here by Alfred Giauque in 1944. A complete townsite, on Giauque Lake, was established by the company to house wor..
Discovery Networks Europe
Discovery Networks Europe is the European Subsidery of Discovery Communications Inc. It was founded in 1989 to produce the British Discovery Channel and now provides a number of other channels across europe. DNE produces its own content with 70% of primetme viewing being commisisioned in Europe. DNE..
Discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation
This article concerns the accidental discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation. Although predicted by earlier theories, it was first found accidentally by Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson as they experimented with the Horn Antenna. Contents 1 History2 Bibliography3 E..
Discovery of Fiji
''', which combines the two cosmetically.--> History of Fiji Timeline Discovery The rise and fall of Cakobau Colonial Fiji Fiji since 1970 Main article Constitutional crisis of 1977 Coups of 1987 Coup of 2000 Main article Timeline - Mutinies Aftermath - AllegationsMara deposed - Iloilo pl..
Discovery of ozone depletion
Ozone Depletion: Discovery of 1985 in Antarctica by an English scientist. ..
Discovery of penicillin
Alexander Fleming was the first to suggest that the Penicillium mould must have an antibacterial substance, and the first to isolatate the active substance which he named penicillin, but he was not the first to use its properties. Timeline Year Country Discovery Ancient Greece & China ..
Discovery of precession
Precession of the equinoxes is caused by a polar motion, a change in the orientation of the Earth's axis. As a result of this motion, the stars as seen from Earth appear to change position slowly. The equinoctial points, where the ecliptic crosses the celestial equator, appear to "precess" through t..
Discovery of Puerto Rico
In November 19, 1493 Christopher Columbus set foot on an island in the Caribbean Sea which he called San Juan Bautista. The island was later renamed to Puerto Rico (or "rich port" in English). The island was already inhabited by the Taíno people. The Discovery of Puerto Rico is an official public..
Discovery One
Discovery One is a fictional spacecraft appearing in The Space Odyssey series, including the movie [[2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|2001: A Space Odyssey]]. Discovery One is a large nuclear-powered interplanetary spaceship. Discovery One 3 weeks after launch Discovery One en route to Jupiter ..
Discovery Park
Daybreak Star Cultural Center Fort Lawton Gymnasium Discovery Park is a 534 acre (2.2 km²) park in the peninsular Magnolia neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. It is the city's largest public park and contains 11.81 miles of walking trails. United Indians of All Tribes' Daybreak Star..
Discovery Program
NASA's Discovery Program is a series of lower-cost, highly focused scientific space missions. It was founded to implement NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin's vision of "faster, better, cheaper" planetary missions. Successfully completed missions: NEAR Shoemaker, a mission to study asteroids, succ..
Discovery Real Time
Discovery Real Time is a male oriented factual television channel produced by Discovery Networks Europe. It originally launched in the UK during the 1990s as TLC being a British version of the US channel of the same name. It later rebranded as Discovery Home & Leisure and was relaunched under it..
Discovery Records
a Discovery Record by Red Norvo Discovery Records is a United States based record label known for its recordings of jazz music. Discovery was founded in 1948 by jazz fan and promoter Albert Marx. Marx recorded such jazz notables as Dizzy Gillespie, Red Norvo, and Charlie Mingus for issue on his Di..
Discovery River Boats
Discovery River Boats was an attraction at Walt Disney World's Animal Kingdom in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Attraction facts Grand opening: April 22, 1998Closing date: August 21, 1999Renamed:* Radio Disney River Cruise (March 1999)* Discovery River Taxi (November, 1998)Ride Vehicals: Natural Gas po..
Discovery Science
For the pay-TV channel, see The Science Channel. Discovery Science (also known as Discovery-Based Science) is a scientific methodology which emphasizes analysis of large volumes of experimental data with the goal of finding new patterns or correlations, leading to hypothesis formation and other scie..
Discovery Science Center
Discovery Science Center is a learning complex with more than 100 hands-on science exhibits designed to spark children's natural curiosity. Located 2500 N. Main St. in Santa Ana, California, Discovery Science Center is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. everyday except Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. The ..
Discovery Seminar
The Discovery Seminar was developed in 1985 by a team of Israeli scientists. Their goal was to present scientific rational evidence for the Divine authorship of the Bible. The seminar was translated by the staff of Aish HaTorah into English and had captivated over 100,000 Jews in audiences around th..
Discovery system
A discovery system is an artificial intelligence system which attempts to discover new scientific concepts or laws. Notable discovery systems have included, AutoclassAutomated MathematicianDALTONEuriskoGlauberStahl ..
Discovery Theatre Lab
Discovery Theatre Lab was created in 2001 by the Oregonian theatre director, Jeff Puukka. Discovery Theatre Lab's most popular productions in recent memory have been "Oedipus", 2002; "Dracula", 2003; "The Tower-Maiden's Daughter", 2006. Discovery Theatre Lab remains an innovative environment for l..
Discovery Times
The Discovery Times Channel is a digital cable channel that was a joint venture of Discovery Communications and The New York Times. The channel is now solely owned by Discovery Communications. The channel has approximately 39 million subscribers.[link] History Beginning around 1995, th..
Discovery Travel & Living
Discovery Travel & Living is a channel from Discovery Communications. This name is used in Europe, and in other parts of the world the channel is known as Travel Channel. ..
Discovery Wings
Discovery Wings is a TV channel devoted to documentaries regarding aircraft. In the United States it has been replaced by the Military Channel, which still has a large portion of its programming dedicated to military aviation. ..
Discovery Wizard for SharePoint
Quest Discovery Wizard for SharePoint lets users take inventory and report on the scope and state of their Microsoft SharePoint deployment. The product automatically identifies all the SharePoint servers and sites. The product can scan all standard and non-standard ports and customize search scope t..
Discovery World
Discovery World is a children's museum located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at 500 N. Harbor Drive. When the museum moved to Milwaukee's lakefront in 2006, the museum changed its full name to Discovery World at Pier Wisconsin. It formerly was located at 815 N. James Lovell Street. It currently focuse..
Discovery Zone
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Discover (magazine)
Discover is a science magazine that publishes articles about science for a general audience. The first issue was published in 1980, and it is published monthly. It was owned by the Walt Disney Company, but in 2005 was sold to Bob Guccione Jr., founder of Spin and Gear magazines. Trivia Discover ma..
Discover America (album)
Discover America is a 1972 album by Van Dyke Parks, featuring Parks' take on Calypso music (notably through the inclusion of performers The Esso Trinidad "Tripoli" Steelband). Lyrical themes run a wide range of American History, from John Jones, to early 20th century musicians Bing Crosby and The ..
Discover a Lovelier You
Discover a Lovelier You is a Pernice Brothers album, released in 2005. Track listing "There Goes the Sun" (Pernice) (3:36)"Saddest Quo" (Pernice) (3:32)"Snow" (Pernice) (3:09)"Sell Your Hair" (Pernice) (3:16)"My So-Called Celibate Life" (Pernice) (3:36)"Dumb It Down" (Monahan/Pernice) (2:23)"Disc..
Discover Card
Discover Card is a credit card issued primarily in the United States, with 50 million cardholders. The Discover Card was originally introduced by Sears in 1985, and is today operated as a subsidiary of Morgan Stanley. Discover is headquartered in Riverwoods, Illinois. Most cards with the Disc..
Discover Intensive Phonics for Yourself
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Discover Screenwriting Award
The Discover Screenwriting Award honors writers who had his or her screenplay produced into a feature film or movie for television. The American Screenwriters Association presents these annual award. Winners '2001 Milo Addica - Monster's Ball''*Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman and Roger S.H..
Discover Screenwriting Award 2003
3rd Discover Screenwriting Award The 3rd Discover Screenwriting Award, given by the American Screenwriters Association, honored the best screenwriter(s) of 2003. Winner Antwone Q. Fisher - ''Antwone Fisher Nominees Sofia Coppola - ''Lost in TranslationRichard Curtis - ''Love Actually Ant..
Discover Screenwriting Award 2004
4th Discover Screenwriting Award --> The 4th Discover Screenwriting Award, given by the American Screenwriters Association, honored the best screenwriter(s) of 2004. Winner Discover Screenwriting Award:*Paul Haggis - ''Million Dollar Baby Nominees '''Discover Screenwriting Award:*David Mag..
Discover Screenwriting Award 2005
5th American Screenwriters Association Award March 9, 2006 --> The 5th Discover Screenwriting Award, given by the American Screenwriters Association on 9 March, 2006, will honor the best screenwriter(s) of 2005. Winner Dan Futterman - ''Capote Nominees George Clooney and Grant Heslov - ''G..
Discover the Networks
Discover the Networks is a website that offers analysis of the individuals, groups, and history of the U.S. political left wing. It was launched in 2004 by David Horowitz and has a staff of over a dozen contributors. Its current Editor-in-Chief is Horowitz. John Perazzo is the project's managing edi..
Discover the World of Money
Discover the World of Money is a biennial publication by the American Numismatic Association. It is a companion to Numismatist. ..
DiscoVision
DiscoVision is the name of several things related to the video laserdisc format. It was the original name of the "Reflective Optical Videodisc System" format later known as LaserVision or LaserDisc. MCA DiscoVision Inc. was a division of entertainment giant MCA, established in 1969 to develop and s..
Disco (album)
Disco is the second album by the UK electronic music group Pet Shop Boys. It was first released in 1986 (see 1986 in music). Disco was not really an original studio album, but rather an album length collection of remixes of songs from their first album, Please, and B-sides. Many fans of 1980s sy..
Disco 2
Disco 2 is the eighth album by UK electronic music duo Pet Shop Boys. Released in September 1994 by Parlophone Records, it consists of remixes of songs from their 1993 Very and recent B-sides. It was an attempt to showcase their recent remixes and possibily recreate some of the critical success ..
Disco 2000
Disco 2000 were a British pop band, notable as a side project of The KLF. Vocal duties were handled by Cressida Cauty (wife of KLF co-founder Jimmy Cauty) and June Montana aka Mo (former vocalist of Jimmy Cauty's previous band Brilliant). Between 1987 and 1989, Disco 2000 released three singles o..
Disco 3
Disco 3 is the thirteenth album by the UK electronic music duo Pet Shop Boys. It was released in 2003. It consists of five remixes of songs and B-sides from their previous album, Release, three new tracks, a new recording of "Positive role model" from their 2001 musical Closer to Heaven, and a co..
Disco ball
A mirrored disco ball A disco ball, mirror ball, or ball mirror is a roughly spherical structure that reflects light directed at it in many directions, producing a complicated and hard-to-anticipate display. Its surface consists of hundreds or thousands of facets, nearly all of approximately t..
Disco Biscuits
The Disco Biscuits are a band from Philadelphia. The band is comprised of Jon Gutwillig (guitar), Marc Brownstein, (bass), Allen Aucoin (drums), Aron Magner (keyboards). Former drummer Sam Altman played his last concert as drummer for The Disco Biscuits on 8/27/2005. Magner replaced original keyboa..
Disco Blanco Recordings
Disco Blanco Recordings is an experimental independent record label located in Helsinki, Finland. The label was formed in 2003. External links [Aprox.][Superchrist][Tundramatiks][Official website] ..
Disco Bloodbath
Disco Bloodbath Disco Bloodbath: A Fabulous but True Tale of Murder in Clubland is a 1999 memoir written by James St. James about the life of Michael Alig and his Club Kids of the New York City club scene. The book specifically chronicles Alig's rise to fame and his subsequent murder of fell..
Disco Corporation
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Disco Dancer
Disco Dancer is a 1982 Bollywood movie starring Mithun Chakraborty. It is notable for having been popular in both India and the Soviet Union during the 1980s. The film tells the rags-to-riches story of a young street performer. Contents 1 Plot2 Memorable quotes3 Songs4 Extern..
Disco Demolition Night
Disco Demolition Night was a promotional event occurring on July 12, 1979 at Comiskey Park in Chicago, Illinois during a scheduled twilight-night American League doubleheader between the Chicago White Sox and the Detroit Tigers which eventually turned into mayhem. It was also known as "Anti-Disco ..
Disco Duck
"Disco Duck" was a satirical disco novelty song performed by Memphis disc jockey Rick Dees and His Cast of Idiots and released in 1976, where it became a number-one hit (and ranked as the ninety-ninth most popular song of the year according to Billboard Magazine). Combining orchestral disco styles w..
Disco fries
Disco fries is a dish made up of french fries covered in brown gravy, on top of which cheese is melted. Mozzarella cheese is most prevalent, although it is not unheard of to use American cheese or cheddar. Disco fries are available almost exclusively at diners in the northeast United States, most no..
Disco Funk Explosion
The Disco-Funk Explosion is a specialty program broadcast each Sunday from 2000 to 2200 PST on 90.5 FM KSJS in San Jose, California that features obscure, danceable R&B from 1980 to 1995. The host, Joey Toledo, spins tunes from unknown groups like Kopper and Gee Bellow, along with minor hits and al..
Disco Godfather
[Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. Disco Godfather (also known as The Avenging Disco Godfather) is a 1980 Action film starring Rudy Ray Moore and Carol Speed. Commonly considered a blaxploitation film, the plot centers on Moore's character, a retired cop,..
Disco Guns
The first "Disco Gun" to appear on Cartoon Network "Disco Gun" is a term devised by online communities for an unusual editing technique used for the American broadcast of the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam SEED in which distracting neon lights are painted on firearms to make them appear to be..
Disco Inferno
This article is about the band. For songs of the same name, see Disco Inferno (song). For the professional wrestler, see Glenn Gilberti. For the musical play, see Disco Inferno (Musical). Disco Inferno (left to right): Ian Crause, Rob Whatley and Paul Wilmott Disco Inferno was a band formed i..
Disco Inferno (50 Cent song)
"Disco Inferno" Single by 50 Cent From the album The Massacre Released 2004/2005 Format Digital download12" maxi single Genre Rap Length 3:16 Label G-Unit/Shady/Aftermath/Interscope Writers 50 CentT. CrawfordP. Pitts Producers Cool & DreDangerous LLC Director — Certification &md..
Disco Inferno (Musical)
Disco Inferno is a musical play written by Justin Sepple and first performed by the Stage One Theatre Company in 1999. The [Disco Inferno website] hasn't much information on the published show, but a synopsis of the show would be this: Set in the funkadelic decade of the seventies, th..
Disco Inferno (song)
There are two well-known songs named '"Disco Inferno": The Trammps released "Disco Inferno" in 1976. This song was inspired by the movie The Towering Inferno, and featured the chourus line: Burn, Baby Burn!50 Cent had his own song named "Disco Inferno" in 2004. redirect[[Template:Disambig]]..
Disco Inferno (The Trammps album)
Disco Inferno is an album released by the disco and funk group The Trammps in 1976. Track listing Side A "Body Contact Contract" (Gray/Harris/Hendricks) - 6:55"Starvin'" (Felder/Harris/Tyson/Young) - 7:05"I Feel Like I've Been Livin' (On the Dark Side of the Moon)" (Baker) - 6:59 Side B "Disco In..
Disco Infiltrator
"Disco Infiltrator" is the sixth single from LCD Soundsystem released on June 6, 2005. The single includes a cover of the Siouxsie and the Banshees's track "Slowdive" which was off their 1982 album A Kiss in the Dreamhouse. Track listing "Disco Infiltrator""Slowdive (Xfm Session)" ..
Disco Kandi
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Disco Machine
Michael Mondragon, better known as Disco Machine is an American professional wrestler from Southern California. Disco Machine is one of the six owners of SoCal promotion Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, collectively known as the "PWG Six". Disco Machine frequently teams with Excalibur, Kevin Steen, and Roni..
Disco mix
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. A disco mix is the re-recording of a song, whose structure was predicated on exciting listeners and dancers by ..
Disco Mix Club
Disco Mixing Club (DMC) is a worldwide name to all professional and amateur disc jockeys, especially those involved in the avant-garde music genre known as turntablism. What began in 1986, and continues as a per annum championship to this present day, has solidified into the most popular, and perhap..
Disco Montego
Disco Montego were an Australian dance music duo, consisting of brothers Darren and Dennis Dowlut. The brothers started as an Melbourne r&b duo Kaylan before becoming a production duo in 2001. Darren died of cancer in 2005. Contents 1 History2 Membership3 Discography3.1 Albums..
Disco Nation 45
Disco Nation 45 was the second ever release for Bis. It also the first Bis release to come out on Chemikal Underground, a label Bis found support in several times. Track listing "School Disco" (2:38)"Plastik People" (2:14)"Conspiracy A-Go-Go" (2:38) Production Recorded by: Simon Strange Recorded at..
Disco Nouveau
Disco Nouveau is the first compilation album of Ann Arbor, Michigan record label Ghostly International. Released in 2002, the album served as a modern update of Giorgio Moroder's famed Italo Disco sound of the 1970s and 1980s and includes contributions from artists such as Solvent, ADULT., and Sus..
Disco orchestration
Disco orchestration illustrates the richness of musical production techniques that went into the production of classic disco music. The sound of a disco song, as with the sound of a song of any genre of music, depended on the particular tastes of the artists, and - if relevant to the genre - the ar..
Disco Pigs
Cillian Murphy and Elaine Cassidy in Disco Pigs. Disco Pigs was a play written by Enda Walsh. It was adapted into a film in 2001. The film was directed by Kirsten Sheridan; the daughter of filmmaker Jim Sheridan. The film adaptation starred Cillian Murphy, who had also played the role of Pig ..
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Disco Rick
Contents 1 His Career2 Discography3 The Dogs: \"The Dogs\"4 Disco Rick: \"The Negro's Back\"5 The Dogs: \"Beware of the Dogs\"6 The Dogs: \"K-9 Bass\"7 Disco Rick and the Wolf Pack: \"Back from Hell\"8 Artists Worked With9 Labels Worked For His Career ..
Disco Stu
Disco Stu is a fictional, secondary character from The Simpsons. He is a disco aficionado and is usually featured wearing a rhinestone-encrusted leisure suit. He often refers to himself in the third person (putting a big emphasis on "Stu" and then pausing before saying anything else) and is noted ..
Disco Tango
Disco Tango was the Danish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1979, performed in Danish by Tommy Seebach. The song was performed third on the night (following Italy's Matia Bazar with Raggio Di Luna and preceding Ireland's Cathal Dunne with Happy Man). At the close of voting, it had received 76 po..
Disco Volante
This page is about a musical album. See also Disco Volante (disambiguation) Disco Volante is a 1995 (see 1995 in music) album by the band Mr. Bungle. It is by far the most experimental of all their productions as it picks up inspirations from a wide variety of musical styles, including death met..
Disco Volante (disambiguation)
The term Disco Volante (flying disc) may refer to; The flying discs thought by many to have come from Atlantis - no evidence exists for this theory* This is referenced in Terry Pratchetts' The Colour of Magic, where the mercantile culture of Krill uses discs powered by magic and piloted by hydropho..
Discraft
Discraft is a company founded by Jim Kenner and located in Wixom, Michigan. They are a leading manufacturer of flying discs for the sports of Ultimate, Disc Golf and Freestyle frisbee. The company does not have any retail stores, but rather sells large quantities of discs to retailers and wholesaler..
Discrediting tactic
The expression discrediting tactics in politics refers to personal attacks against a public figure intended to discourage people from believing in the figure or supporting their cause (see damaging quotations). In public discourse, especially in societies with free speech, one of the most successfu..
Discreet Cat
Discreet Cat is a thoroughbred horse. As a foal of 2003, he is a possible contender for the Triple Crown in 2006. He will not race in the Kentucky Derby or any other Triple Crown races. Connections Discreet Cat is owned by Godolphin. He is trained by Saeed bin Suroor and has been ridden by both Edg..
Discreet Music
Virgin release Discreet Music (1975) is an album by the British ambient musician Brian Eno. While No Pussyfooting may be his first ambient album and Another Green World features many ambient pieces, this is Brian Eno’s first purely ambient solo album. It is also the first "Brian Eno" album, ..
Discrepancies (Dune)
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Discrepancy function
See also Low-discrepancy sequenceConstructions of low-discrepancy sequences a function of discripancy and yah... ..
Discrepancy theory
Discrepancy theory can be described as the study of inevitable irregularities of distributions, in measure-theoretic and combinatorial settings. Just as Ramsey theory elucidates the impossibility of total disorder, discrepancy theory studies the limitations of total uniformity. Contents 0.1 ..
Discrete
The word discrete comes from the Latin word discretus which means separate. It is used with different meanings in different contexts: In perception, a discrete entity is something that can be perceived individually and not as connected to, or part of something else.In topology, a branch of mathema..
Discrete-time Fourier transform
Fourier transforms Continuous Fourier transform Fourier series Discrete Fourier transform Discrete-time Fourier transform Related transforms [http://encycl.opentopia.com/ edit] For a sequence of real or complex numbers: [x[n], \; n\in\mathbb] (integers), the discr..
Discrete category
In mathematics, especially category theory, a discrete category is a category whose only morphisms are the identity morphisms. It is the simplest kind of category. Specifically a category C is discrete if MorC(X, X) = for all objects X MorC(X, Y) = ∅ for all objects X ≠ Y Since by axioms,..
Discrete choice
In economics, discrete choice problems involve choices between two or more discrete alternatives, such as entering or not entering the labor market, or choosing between modes of transport. Such choices contrast with standard consumption models in which the quantity of each good consumed is assumed t..
Discrete component
In electronics, a discrete component is an individual device, either passive (resistor, capacitor, inductor, diode) or active (transistor or vacuum tube), other than an integrated circuit. ..
Discrete computer
A discrete computer is a computer made up of discrete processing elements as opposed to a continuous computer which operates on real numbers. Any discrete computer can be adequately thought of as working on integer values. ..
Discrete cosine transform
2-D DCT compared to the DFT. For both transforms, there is the magnitude of the spectrum on left and the histogram on right; both spectra are cropped to 1/4, to zoom the behaviour in the lower frequencies. The DCT concentrates most of the power on the lower frequencies. The discrete cosine tr..
Discrete delta-potential method
The discrete delta potential method is a combination of both numerical and analytic method used to solve the Schrödinger equation the main feature of this method is to obtain first a discrete approximation of the potential in the form: [ V(r)=\sum_V(a_))\delta(r-a_) ] where the i index ..
Discrete device
A discrete device is an electronic component with just one circuit element, either passive (resistor, capacitor, inductor, diode) or active (transistor or vacuum tube), other than an integrated circuit. The term is used to distinguish the component from integrated circuits and hybrid circuits, whi..
Discrete element method
The term discrete element method (DEM) is a family of numerical methods for computing the motion of a large number of particles like molecules or grains of sand. The method was originally applied by Cundall in 1971 to problems in rock mechanics. The theoretical basis of the method was detailed by Wi..
Discrete Event Simulation
In discrete event simulation, only the points in time at which the state of the system changes are represented. In other words, the system is modelled as a series of events, i.e. instants in time when a state-change occurs. Examples of events are "a customer arrives", "a customer starts receiving se..
Discrete Fourier transform
Fourier transforms Continuous Fourier transform Fourier series Discrete Fourier transform Discrete-time Fourier transform Related transforms [http://encycl.opentopia.com/ edit] In mathematics, the discrete Fourier transform (DFT), sometimes called the finite Fourier transform, is a F..
Discrete geometry
Discrete geometry or combinatorial geometry may be loosely defined as study of geometrical objects and properties that are discrete or combinatorial, either by their nature or by their representation; the study that does not essentially rely on the notion of continuity. Parts of its domain of resea..
Discrete group
In mathematics, a discrete group is a group G equipped with the discrete topology. With this topology G becomes a topological group. A discrete subgroup of a topological group G is a subgroup H whose relative topology is the discrete one. For example, the integers, Z, form a discrete subgroup of the..
Discrete Hartley transform
A discrete Hartley transform (DHT) is a Fourier-related transform of discrete, periodic data similar to the discrete Fourier transform (DFT), with analogous applications in signal processing and related fields. Its main distinction from the DFT is that it transforms real inputs to real outputs, wi..
Discrete Laplace operator
In mathematics, the discrete Laplace operator is an analog of the continuous Laplace operator, defined so that it has meaning on a graph or a discrete grid. The discrete Laplace operator occurs in physics problems such as the Ising model and loop quantum gravity, as well as in the study of discrete ..
Discrete logarithm
In mathematics, specifically in abstract algebra and its applications, discrete logarithms are group-theoretic analogues of ordinary logarithms. The problem of computing discrete logarithms is a sort of sibling to the problem of integer factorization, in that both problems are difficult (no efficien..
Discrete Lorentzian quantum gravity
In the theory of discrete Lorentzian quantum gravity, space itself is modeled by a lattice instead of a manifold. This theory is different from other lattice methods, in that the geometry of the lattice is Minkowskian and not Euclidian in nature. The goal of this method was and is to come up with ..
Discrete mathematics
Discrete mathematics, also called finite mathematics, is the study of mathematical structures that are fundamentally discrete, in the sense of not supporting or requiring the notion of continuity. Most, if not all, of the objects studied in finite mathematics are countable sets, such as integers, f..
Discrete modelling
Discrete modelling is the discrete analogue of continuous modelling. In discrete modelling, discrete formulae are fit to data. A common method in this form of modelling is to use recurrence relations. ..
Discrete optimization
Discrete optimization is a branch of optimization in applied mathematics and computer science. As opposed to continuous optimization, the variables used in the objective function (or some of them) are restricted to assume only discrete values, such as the integers. Problems of combinatorial optimi..
Discrete probability distribution
In mathematics, a probability distribution is called discrete, if it is fully characterized by a probability mass function. Thus, the distribution of a random variable X is discrete, and X is then called a discrete random variable, if [\sum_u \Pr(X=u) = 1\qquad\qquad\qquad(1)] as u runs..
Discrete signal
A discrete signal or discrete-time signal is a time series, perhaps a signal that has been sampled from a continuous-time signal. Unlike a continuous-time signal, a discrete-time signal is not a function of a continuous-time argument, but is a sequence of quantities, that is, a function over a d..
Discrete sine transform
In mathematics, the discrete sine transform (DST) is a Fourier-related transform similar to the discrete Fourier transform (DFT), but using only real numbers. It is equivalent to the imaginary parts of a DFT of roughly twice the length, operating on real data with odd symmetry (since the Fourier tr..
Discrete space
In topology and related fields of mathematics, a discrete space is a particularly simple example of a topological space or similar structure, one in which the points are "isolated" from each other in a certain sense. Contents 1 Definitions2 Properties3 Uses4 Indiscrete spaces5..
Discrete spectrum
In mathematics and physics, the spectrum of an operator, in particular self adjoint or normal operators can be classified via its spectral measures. If A is a self adjoint operator on some Hilbert space, consider the subspace containing only and all vectors whose spectral measures are discrete measu..
Discrete symmetry
In theoretical physics, a discrete symmetry is a symmetry under the transformations of a discrete group - i.e. a topological group with a discrete topology whose elements form a finite or a countable set. ..
Discrete system
A discrete system or discrete-time system, as opposed to a continuous-time system, is one in which the signals are sampled periodically. It is usually used to connote an analog sampled system, rather than a digital sampled system, which uses quantized values. See also Digital controlDiscrete timeS..
Discrete valuation
In mathematics, a discrete valuation on a commutative ring A is a function [\nu:A\to\mathbb Z\cup\] satisfying the conditions [\nu(x\cdot y)=\nu(x)+\nu(y)] [\nu(x+y)\geq\mathrm\big\] [\nu(x)=\infty\iff x=0]. For example, if A is the ring of integers, thes..
Discrete valuation ring
In abstract algebra, a discrete valuation ring (DVR) is a principal ideal domain (PID) with exactly one non-zero maximal ideal. This means a DVR is an integral domain R which satisfies any one of the following equivalent conditions: R is a local principal ideal domain, and not a field.R is a valua..
Discrete wavelet transform
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. In numerical analysis and functional analysis, the discrete wavelet transform (DWT) refers to wavelet transforms..
Discretion
Discretion may mean to act in a discreet or prudent manner, or it may refer to the ability to act or make a decision according to one's own choice. Those in a position of power are most often able to exercise discretion as to how they will apply or exercise that power. In the criminal justice syste..
Discretionary access control
Discretionary Access Control (DAC) defines basic access control policies to objects in a filesystem. Generally, these are done at the discretion of the object owner -- file/directory permissions and user/group ownership. The [Telecom Glossary] defines DAC as "A means of restricting acces..
Discretionary jurisdiction
Discretionary jurisdiction is a legal term used to describe a circumstance where a court has the power to decide whether to hear a particular case brought before it. Most courts have no such power, and must entertain any case properly filed, so long as the court has subject matter jurisdiction over..
Discretionary policy
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Discretionary review
Discretionary review is the authority of some appellate courts to decide which cases the court will consider and which it will not consider. ..
Discretionary spending
Discretionary spending refers to spending set on a yearly basis by decision of Congress and is part of fiscal policy. This spending is optional, and in contrast to entitlement programs for which funding is mandatory. ..
Discretization
In mathematics, discretization concerns the process of transferring continuous models and equations into discrete counterparts. This process is usually carried out as a first step toward making them suitable for numerical evaluation and implementation on digital computers. In order to be processed o..
Discretization error
In numerical analysis, computational physics, and simulation, discretization error is error resulting from the fact that a function of a continuous variable is represented in the computer by a finite number of evaluations, for example, on a lattice. Discretization error can usually be reduced by us..
Discriminant
In mathematics, a discriminant is an expression that discriminates qualities of algebraic structures. The concept applies to polynomials, conic sections, quadratic forms, and algebraic number fields. For a polynomial P(x) = a0 + a1x + a2x² + ... , the discriminant is a quantity D = D(a0,a1,a2..
Discriminant of an algebraic number field
In mathematics, the discriminant of an algebraic number field is a numerical invariant containing information about ramified primes. Explanation If K is an algebraic number field and R its ring of integers, the discriminant of K is associated to R and in some sense measures how large R is. In the ..
Discrimination
This article is about discrimination in the social science sense. For the act of distinguishing/discriminating between things see distinction, difference, comparison. To discriminate socially is to make a distinction between people on the basis of class or category without regard to individual mer..
Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958
Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 is an International Labour Organization Convention. It was established in 1958, with the preamble stating: Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to discrimination in the field of employment and occupation,...&..
Discrimination abilities of pigeons
In a famous article in 1995, Watanabe, Sakamoto and Wakita described an experiment which showed that pigeons can be trained to discriminate between paintings by Picasso and Monet. The birds were first trained on a limited set of paintings: when the shown painting was a Picasso, the pigeon was able..
Discrimination against homosexuals in Singapore
LGBT movements  Around the world ·   · · Opposition · Violence Contents 1 Legal1.1 Sections 377 and 377A of the Penal Code1.2 Section 354 of the Penal Code (Outrage of Modesty)1.3 Section 294A of the Penal Code (Obscene Act)1.4 Miscellaneous ..
Discrimination and National Security Initiative
Discrimination & National Security Initiative (DNSI) is a research project established by the Pluralism Project at Harvard University. Following the terrorists attacks of September 11, 2001, several communities within the United States experienced and continue to endure a prolonged and wanton backla..
Discriminative
The adjective discriminative refers to the ability or power to discriminate between different things, i.e. notice and state their equality or difference, make a distinction. It can also refer to characteristic elements, attributes or features of a thing. ..
DisCSP
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Discs of Tron
Discs of Tron is the second arcade game based on 1982 Disney movie Tron. Description While the first (simply called Tron) has several games (gridbugs, lightcycles, entering the MCP cone and tanks), Discs of Tron is inspired by the short sequence in the movie where the character Flynn beats another..
DiscT@2
DiscT@2 is a a technology introduced by Yamaha that allows users to burn custom motifs or images onto the data side of CD-R media when using a Yamaha branded and compatible drive. Other technologies such as NEC's LabelFlash system allow the same functionality as DiscT@2, as well as the functionality..
Discursive
Discursive cognition is a school of psychology developed in the 1990s by Jonathan Potter and Derek Edwards at Loughborough University based on the philosophy of language of Wittgenstein, and the conversation analysis of Harvey Sacks.Discursive democracy refers to any system of political decisions ba..
Discursive cognition
For other uses of the word, see discursive Discursive cognition is better known as discursive psychology. It is a school of psychology developed in the 1990s by Jonathan Potter and Derek Edwards at Loughborough University. It is based on the philosophy of language of Wittgenstein, and the conver..
Discursive psychology
For other uses of the word, see discursive Discursive psychology is a school of psychology developed in the 1990s by Jonathan Potter and Derek Edwards at Loughborough University. It draws on the philosophy of language of the later Wittgenstein, the rhetorical approach of Michael Billig, and the co..
Discus
Discus may refer to: Grande intenditore Antonio Gioia Discus throw, an athletic disciplineDiscus fish, a freshwater perciform fishSchempp-Hirth Discus, a competition sailplaneDiscus (band), a progressive rock band from Indonesia. This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of art..
DISCUS
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Discussion Board
Discussion Board is an ASP.NET 2.0 forum software from Active Data Online Pty Ltd. The system includes discussion forums, blogs, calendars, polls, questions and answers, picture galleries, file shares, classifieds, keyword advertising, subscriptions, ratings, social networking, and even artificial ..
Discus (band)
Discus is a progressive rock band from Indonesia which was formed in 1996. As of 2005 they have released 2 albums. Members Iwan Hasan: guitar, 21-string harpguitar, Balinese rindik, electronic percussion & lead vocalsAnto Praboe: flute, soprano, alto & tenor saxophones, clarinet & bass clarinetEko ..
Discus (fish)
Discus are freshwater perciform fish, peculiar cichlids native to the Amazon River basin. There are two recognized species, both within the genus Symphysodon: the red discus or common discus (Symphysodon discus) and the blue discus (Symphysodon aequifasciatus). The two species are very similar and..
Discus (Skull Island)
Discus ora ('Coast discus') is a fictional lizard described in the 2005 book The World of Kong, an encyclopedia about the ecology of Skull Island as depicted in the 2005 remake of King Kong. Discus is a green lizard of 4 to 6 inches (10-15 cm) long. Highly similar to the real life Draco lizard (..
Discus Launch Glider (DLG), Radio Controlled
A Radio Controlled Discus Launch Glider (DLG in short) is a model aircraft glider (one that does not have a motor) designed with a pull resistant wing and fitted with a peg that allows the pilot to grb his plane by the wing tip and launch his glider after rotating in a discus motion. This motion inv..
Discus macclintocki
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Discus throw
Statue of discus thrower in Botanic Garden, Copenhagen, Denmark, made by the Skladanek brothers For alternate meanings, see Discus. The discus throw is an athletics (track and field) throwing event. The discus, the object to be thrown, is a lens-shaped heavy disc with a diameter of 220 mm (8..
Discworld
This article is about the novels. For the Discworld itself see: Discworld (world). Diskworld, spelled with a "k", was a disk magazine for the Apple Macintosh, later renamed Softdisk for Mac. Cover art of The Colour of Magic by Josh Kirby Discworld is a series of thirty-four fantasy novels, a..
Discworld's Unseen University Diary
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Discworld (computer game)
Discworld is a graphical adventure game developed by Teeny Weeny Games and Perfect 10 Productions in mid 1995. It features Rincewind the Wizard (voiced by Eric Idle) and is set in Terry Pratchett's Discworld. It was released on both floppy disk and CD-ROM with the CD version having the benefit of f..
Discworld (world)
The Discworld is the setting for all of Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of novels. It consists of a slightly convex disc (complete with edge-of-the-world drop-off and consequent waterfall) resting on the backs of four huge elephants which are in turn standing on the back of an enormous turtle (a..
Discworld 2
Discworld II: Missing Presumed...!? (Discworld II: Mortality Bytes! in the USA) is the second graphical adventure game based on Terry Pratchett's series of fantasy novels set in the mythical Discworld. The game was developed by Perfect Entertainment and published by Psygnosis in 1996 on two CD-ROMs..
Discworld calendar
The Discworld calendar, in Terry Pratchett's fictional Discworld universe, was first defined in a footnote in The Colour of Magic, and has been expanded upon in later novels and The Discworld Almanak (2004). It has numurous oddities, the chief of which is its length. The calendar is based on a Grea..
Discworld characters
This article contains brief biographies for characters from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. Many Discworld characters also have their own pages. For a list of them see the category list. Contents 1 71-Hour Ahmed2 Achmed the Mad3 Anghammarad4 Adora Belle Dearheart5 B'..
Discworld gods
The Discworld gods are the fictional deities from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. See also: Discworld magic Contents 1 Groups of gods1.1 Small gods1.2 Djelibeybian gods1.3 ..
Discworld MUD
Discworld MUD is a free Multi-User Dimension set in the Discworld as depicted in the Discworld series of books by Terry Pratchett. It is based on the LPMud codebase. Some typical activity on the MUD, featuring a map, soul commands, talker channels and spell casting. Contents 1 Overvie..
Discworld mudlib
The Discworld mudlib is an LPC framework, or mudlib, originally written for the Discworld MUD. It has been regarded as one of the more advanced mudlibs around: according to [Lauren Burka's MUD timeline, written in 1995], the Discworld mudlib was only the second widely available mudlib. A..
Discworld Noir
Discworld Noir is a computer game based on Terry Pratchett's Discworld comic fantasy novels, and unlike the previous Discworld games is both an example and parody of the noir genre. The game was developed by Perfect Entertainment, published by GT Interactive, and was released for Microsoft Windows ..
Discworld stamps
Discworld stamps are a series of artistamps based on the Discworld novels of Terry Pratchett, specifically ''Going Postal. They are produced by Bernard Pearson (the Cunning Artificer), with his wife Isobel and many other artists including Colin Edwards and Alan Batley. The stamps are vetted by Te..
Disc (galaxy)
A disc is a component of disc galaxies, such as spiral galaxies, or lenticular galaxies. The galactic disc is the plane in which the spirals, bars and discs of disc galaxies exist. Galaxy discs tend to have more gas and dust, and younger stars than galactic bulges, or galactic haloes. It has been ..
DISC assessment
DISC is a group of psychometric tests based on the 1928 work of psychologist William Moulton Marston. The tests classify four aspects of personality by testing a person's preferences in word associations (compare with Myers-Briggs Type Indicator). DISC is an acronym for: Dominance - relating to con..
Disc brake
Close-up of a disc brake on a car On automobiles, disc brakes are often located within the wheel The disc brake is a device for slowing or stopping the rotation of a wheel. A brake disc (or rotor in US English), usually made of cast iron or ceramic, is connected to the wheel or the axle..
Disc dog
Disc dog is the more generic name for what is commonly called frisbee dog. In disc dog competitions, dogs and their human disc throwers compete in events such as distance catching and somewhat choreographed freestyle catching. The term disc is preferred because Frisbee is a trademark for a brand ..
Disc Drive
Disc Drive or Disc drive might refer to: Disk drive is a form of data storage for computersDiscDrive is the afternoon show on CBC Radio Two This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to ..
Disc Filing System
DFS Developer Acorn Computer Full name Disc Filing System Introduced 1982 (Acorn MOS) Partition identifier None Structures Directory contents Not applicable File allocation Start-Length entries Bad blocks None Limits Max file size 256 KiB Max number of files 31 Max ..
Disc film
Kodak disc film Kodak disc camera Cartridge of disc film Disc film was a still-photography film format aimed at the consumer market, and introduced by Kodak in 1982. The film was in the form of a flat disc, and was fully housed within a plastic cartridge. Each disc held 15 exposur..
Disc galaxy
Disc galaxies are galaxies which have discs, a flattened circular volume of stars. These galaxies may, or may not include a central non-disc-like region (central bulge). Disc galaxy types include barless spiral galaxies (type S, SA)barred spiral galaxies (type SB)intermediate barred spiral galaxies..
Disc golf
A player putting at De Laveaga Disc Golf Course. Disc Golf (sometimes called folf, frolf, or frisbee golf) is a game based on the rules of golf (referred to by disc golfers as "ball golf" or "stick golf"). It uses flying discs which are similar to the Frisbee, but usually smaller and more den..
Disc jockey
For other meanings of DJ, see DJ (disambiguation). A disc jockey (also called DJ, or deejay) is an individual who selects and plays prerecorded music for an intended audience. Contents 1 Etymology of the term2 Job description3 Equipment4 Techniques5 DJ control and econo..
Disc mill
A disc mill, is a type of crusher that can be used to grind, cut, shear, shred, fiberize, pulverize, granulate, crack, rub, curl, fluff, twist, hull, blend, or refine. It works in a similar manner to the ancient Buhrstone mill in that the feedstock is fed between opposing discs or plates. The discs..
Disc Northwest
Disc Northwest (also DiscNW or Northwest Ultimate Association) is a Seattle-based Ultimate organization with the aim of increasing participation in the sport of Ultimate at all levels. DiscNW is the largest and most active Ultimate organization in the United States, supporting many teams at the c..
Disc One: All Their Greatest Hits 1991-2001
Disc One is the seventh full-length album by Barenaked Ladies. It is a "greatest hits" compilation spanning BNL's first decade, featuring a version of every single they had released to that point. The album also featured two new tracks: "It's Only Me (The Wizard of Magicland)" and "Thanks That Was ..
Disc permeameter
--> The disc permeameter is a field instrument used for measuring water infiltration in the soil, which characteried in situ saturated and unsaturated soil hydraulic properties. It is mainly used to provide estimates of soil near saturation hydraulic conductivity. Contents 1 History2 T..
Disc throws
There are many kinds of disc throws. From the perspective of physics, two things must be done in order to throw a flying disc (or Frisbee): Spin must be imparted to the disc to stabilize it.The center of mass must be given some amount of velocity. Most discs are designed to create lift when thrown w..
Disc tumbler lock
A disc tumbler lock or wafer lock is a type of lock that utilizes a set of flat discs to prevent the lock from opening unless the correct key is inserted. Without a key in the lock, the discs (red) are pushed down by springs. The discs nestle into a groove in the lower part of the outer cylinder..
DISD
DISD can refer to: Dalhart Independent School DistrictDallas Independent School DistrictDeSoto Independent School DistrictDickinson Independent School DistrictDuncanville Independent School District ..
Disdrometer
A disdrometer in place in the Everglades. A disdrometer is an instrument used to measure the drop size distribution and velocity of falling hydrometeors. Some disdrometers can distinguish between rain, graupel, and hail. The uses for disdrometers are numerous. They can be used for traffic..
Disdyakis dodecahedron
Disdyakis dodecahedron Click on picture for large version.Click [here] for spinning version. Type Catalan Face polygon scalene triangle Faces 48 Edges 72 Vertices 26 = 6 + 8 + 12 Face configuration V4.6.8 Symmetry group octahedral (Oh) Dual polyhedron truncated cuboctahedron Pro..
Disdyakis triacontahedron
Disdyakis triacontahedron Click on picture for large version.Click [here] for spinning version. Type Catalan Face polygon scalene triangle Faces 120 Edges 180 Vertices 62 = 12 + 20 + 30 Face configuration V4.6.10 Symmetry group icosahedral (Ih) Dual polyhedron truncated icosidode..
Disease
The examples and perspective in this article may not represent a biocentric [WikiProject Countering systemic biasview].Please [http://encycl.opentopia.com/ improve the article] or discuss the issue on the [talk page]. Contagious redirects here. For the Isley Brothers ..
Disease-modifying antirheumatic drug
Disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) is a category of drugs used in many autoimmune disorders to slow down disease progression. Their use was first propagated in rheumatoid arthritis (hence their name) but has come to include many other diseases, such as Crohn's disease, lupus erythematosu..
Diseases Database
The Diseases Database is a free website that provides information about the relationships between medical conditions, symptoms, and medications. It directly integrates the Unified Medical Language System. External links [Website][Review] at British Medical Journal[Overvi..
Diseases of affluence
Diseases of affluence are those diseases which are thought to be a result of increasing wealth in a society, in contrast to Diseases of poverty which result from impoverishment. Contents 1 Examples2 Communicable vs. non-communicable diseases3 Possible causes of the diseases of aff..
Diseases of fish
This article outlines common diseases that affect varieties of fish kept as pets worldwide. Contents 1 Ammonia poisoning2 External bacterial infection3 See also4 External links Ammonia poisoning Symptoms Red or bleeding gills. Fish may appear darker in color and may gasp for..
Diseases of poverty
Diseases of poverty are diseases that overwhelmingly affect the poor; in many cases poverty is the leading risk factor for incidence of such disease, and some disease can (or allegedly) cause poverty. Contents 1 Examples2 Mechanisms and Causes of Diseases of Poverty3 Effects of D..
Diseases of the foot
Although diseases of the foot generally are not limited, that is they are related to or manifest elsewhere in the body, often the foot, because of its distance from the central circulation, the heart and its constant exposure to pressures from the ground and the weight of the body, is the first plac..
Diseases of the honeybee
Common diseases, parasites, pests, and ailments of the honeybee include: Contents 1 Varroa mites2 Acarine (..
Disease (song)
Disease is the first single from matchbox twenty's third album, more than you think you are. It was co-written by matchbox twenty lead singer Rob Thomas and Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger. It had some success on rock and alternative charts, though—owing to its relatively hard rock sound&m..
Disease is Punishment
Disease is Punishment is a live DVD featuring songs from The Network's first album Money Money 2020. The project, directed by John Roecker, with visuals & music videos directed/produced by Roy Miles of AntiDivision, was conceptualized to be a moreso a film than concert DVD, as evidenced by the col..
Disease management
Disease management may refer to: Disease management (agriculture)Disease management (health) This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intende..
Disease management (agriculture)
In agriculture, disease management is the practice of minimising disease in crops to increase quantity or quality of harvest yield. See also Corn smutIrish potato famineblight ..
Disease management (health)
Disease management is the concept of reducing healthcare costs and improving quality of life for individuals with chronic disease conditions by preventing or minimizing the effects of a disease through integrative care. Also can be called care management, health management programs, or disease self-..
Disease model of addiction
The disease model of addiction describes addictions as a lifelong disease involving biologic and environmental sources of origin. The traditional medical model of disease requires only that an abnormal condition be present that causes discomfort, dysfunction, or distress to the individual afflicted...
Disease mongering
Disease mongering is a term used to describe a perceived attempt by pharmaceutical companies to promote public awareness of (frequently harmless) conditions or diseases with the aim of increasing sales of medication.Moynihan R, Heath I, Henry D. Selling sickness: the pharmaceutical industry and dise..
Disease resistance in fruit and vegetables
Disease resistance in fruit and vegetables; There are a number of lines of defence against pests (that is, those animals that cause damage to the plants we grow) and diseases in the organic garden, principle among these being the practice of good husbandry, creating healthy soil and ensuring high st..
Diseconomies of scale
Diseconomies of scale are the forces that cause larger firms to produce goods and services at increased per-unit costs. They are less well known than what economists have long understood as "economies of scale", the forces which enable larger firms to produce goods and services at reduced per-unit c..
Disection
"Disection" [di-section] means "cutting into (exactly) two pieces".It is also a frequent Misspelling of "dissection", [dis-section] which means "cutting into (many) pieces".Note also: "bisect", which means cutting into two equal pieces...
Disegno
Disegno is the design, usually in the form of a drawing, that the artist had in mind before beginning to carve or paint their work. The concept of disegno is related to the inspiration of the artist and their imagination. The renaissance intellectuals believed that the disegno was the model of God's..
Diselma
Diselma archeri (syn. Fitzroya archeri (Hook.f.) Benth. & Hook.) is a species of plant of the family Cupressaceae and the sole species in the genus Diselma. It is found in Tasmania, on the western coast ranges and Lake St. Clair, at an altitude ranging from 910-1220 m. It is a dioecious shrub or ..
Disembarc in Tsingtao
Please [Glossary#Wwikify] (format) this article or section as suggested in the [Guide to layoutGuide to layout] and the [Manual of StyleManual of Style]. Remove this template after wikifying. This article has been tagged since July 2006. The Disembarc in Tsingtao wa..
Disembowelment
This article is about the act of disembowelment. For the band, see Disembowelment (band). Disembowelment is evisceration, or the removing of some or all of vital organs, usually from the abdomen. The results are, in virtually all cases, fatal. It has historically been used as a severe form of capit..
Disembowelment (band)
Disembowelment (often written diSEMBOWELMENT) is an Australian death/doom metal band from Melbourne that was formed in 1989. They played very slowly (and occasionally with great speed), and relied equally on the atmospheric effects of droning guitars and constant riffing. Disembowelment is the..
Disemvoweling
Disemvoweling (also spelled disemvowelling) is a technique used by forum moderators to suppress Internet trolling, vandalism, and other rude behavior in online discourse by removing all the vowels from the offending material. The disemvoweled text can still be read, or rather puzzled out; but it is..
Disenå
Disenå is a village in the municipality of Sør-Odal, Norway. Its population (2005) is 284. ..
Disenchantment
Disenchantment (Entzauberung) in social sciences refers to the devaluation of mysticism. The concept has been introduced by Max Weber to describe the character of modernized, secularized society, where scientific understanding is more valued then plain belief. See also reenchantment External links ..
Disenchantment Bay
Map of Disenchantment Bay Disenchantment Bay extends southwest for 16 km (10 mi) from the mouth of Russell Fiord to Point Latouche, at the head of Yakutat Bay in Alaska. Named "Puerto del Desengano", Spanish for "bay of disenchantment", by Captain Alessandro Malaspina in 1792, upon finding th..
Disenfranchising Act
The Disenfranchising Act was an Act of Parliament of the Parliament of Ireland passed in 1727, one of a series of penal laws, prohibiting all Roman Catholics from voting. Its full title is "An Act for the further regulating the Election of Members of Parliament, and preventing the irregular Proceedi..
Disengagement originator
In telecommunication, disengagement originator is the user or functional unit that initiates a disengagement attempt. A disengagement originator may be the originating user, the destination user, or the communications system. The communications system may deliberately originate the disengagement..
Disengage the Simulator
Disengage the Simulator is an EP by CKY. The title track is from the band's first album, Volume 1. This EP is scarce, as there were only 2,000 copies printed. Trivia -The cover shows the character Angela from the movie Sleepaway Camp which is Deron Miller's favorite movie. Track listing "Disengag..
Disentanglement puzzle
A disentanglement puzzle is a type of mechanical puzzle that involves disentangling one piece or set of pieces from another piece or set of pieces. The reverse problem of reassembling the puzzle can be as hard as—or even harder than—disentanglement. There are several different kinds of ..
Disentis/Mustér
Disentis (German) or Mustér (Romansh), with its official name Disentis/Mustér is a community of the district Surselva in the Northwest of the Canton of Graubünden or Grisons in Switzerland. The skiing and summer tourism resort high up in the Rhine valley is the site of one of the oldest Benedict..
Disentis Abbey
Disentis Abbey (Kloster or Reichskloster Disentis) is a Benedictine monastery in the Canton of Graubünden in eastern Switzerland, around which the present town of Disentis/Mustér grew up. Contents 1 Foundation to 19th century2 19th century onwards3 External links4 Referenc..
DiSEqC
DiSEqC logo, indicating DiSEqC 2.0 compliance DiSEqC switch DiSEqC (Digital Satellite Equipment Control) is a special communication protocol for use between a satellite receiver and a device such as a multi-dish switch or a small dish antenna rotor. It is compatible with the actuators..
Disequality
Disequality is a condition in which one quantity can be greater than, or less than, but not equal to another quantity. Contents 1 Disequality versus inequality2 Notation for disequality3 See also...4 External links Disequality versus inequality Disequality differs from inequa..
Disestablishmentarianism
Disestablishmentarianism nowadays relates to the Church of England in the United Kingdom and related views on its establishment as an established church. It was primarily a movement in the United Kingdom in the 19th century, when all four Home nations had established churches, even though the esta..
Diseworth
Diseworth is a village in the English county of Leicestershire. It is south of East Midlands Airport and off Junction 23A of the M1 Motorway. Grid reference ..
Disexport
Disexport is an investment company in Costa Rica. It has land develoment projects, and also represents General Motors Corporation and the sale of new Chevrolet, Cadillac, and Opel vehicles. More information about Disexport and its group of companies at: info@disexport.com or visit the site: www.grup..
Disfear
Disfear are a Swedish hardcore band that formed in the early ‘90's. They have only recorded sporadically over the years, releasing the albums Soul Scars in 1995 and Everyday Slaughter in 1998. Following a long silence, the group returned in 2003 with a 15 track album, Misanthropic Generation. C..
Disfigurement
redirect [[Template:Mergefrom]]Disfigurement is the state of having one's appearance deeply and persistently harmed. This could be by a medical condition, such as wounds (accidental or intentional), disease e.g skin condition, or a birth defect. Disfigurements affecting visible areas such as the fac..
Disfranchisement
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Disgaea
Disgaea is the title of several productions of Nippon Ichi Software: [[Disgaea: Hour of Darkness]] – a PlayStation 2 strategy RPG game that follows the adventures of Laharl, a demon prince on his quest to become Overlord of the Netherworld after the death of his father.[[Disgaea 2: Cursed Memo..
Disgaea: Hour of Darkness
Disgaea: Hour of Darkness () is a fantasy video game for the PlayStation 2, developed by Nippon Ichi Software and released in the U.S. by ATLUS on August 27, 2003 and by Koei in Europe on May 28, 2004. The game follows the adventures of Laharl, a demon prince in the netherworld. Nippon Ichi has als..
Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories
Disgaea 2 is the sequel to 2003's [[Disgaea: Hour of Darkness]] for the PlayStation 2. It was announced by Nippon Ichi, the developer of the predecessor, and was released in Japan on February 23, 2006. Unlike Nippon Ichi's previous games, the game is on DVD-ROM, has an animated opening movie, and ..
Disgaea characters
This article contains information on characters from [[Disgaea: Hour of Darkness]], a fantasy video game by Nippon Ichi. [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. Contents 1 The Overlord and His Vassals1.1 Laharl1.2 Etna1.3 Flonne2 The ..
Disgorge
Disgorge is a brutal death metal band from San Diego, California, USA, formed in 1992. Discography Cognitive Lust of Mutilation (Demo, 1992)95 Demo (Demo, 1995)Cranial Impalement (Full-length, 1999)She Lay Gutted (Full-length, 1999)Consume the Forsaken (Full-length, 2002)Parallels of Infinite Tortu..
Disgrace
Disgrace (1999) is a novel by J. M. Coetzee, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature; the book itself won the Booker Prize in 1999, the year in which it was published. A movie adaption is slated for release in 2007. Plot summary [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending ..
Disgraceful
Disgraceful is Dubstar's debut album. It was released in October 1995 on the Food Records label, a division of EMI that was also home to Blur. Tracklisting StarsAnywhereJust A Girl She SaidElevator SongThe Day I See You AgainWeek In Week OutPopdorianNot Once, Not EverSt. Swithin's DayDisgraceful..
Disguised Masters
Disguised Masters is a compilation album by the Norwegian avantgarde metal band Arcturus. The album has two new songs: White Tie Black Noise and Deception Genesis. Other tracks are re-mixed versions of songs from La Masquerade Infernale and Du Nordavind from Aspera Hiems Symfonia. Track listing "..
Disguise in Love
Disguise in Love is the second album by John Cooper Clarke, originally released in 1978. Most of the tracks are spoken over musical accompaniment provided by Clarke's band The Invisible Girls, except "Psycle Sluts 1&2" and "Salome Maloney" — both live recordings from the Ritz Ballroom in Manc..
Disgust
Disgust is an emotion, typically associated with things that are perceived as unclean or inedible. In The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, Charles Darwin wrote that disgust refers to something revolting. Primarily in relation to the sense of taste, as actually perceived or vividly ima..
Disgusta
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Dish
For a dish in the sense of a type of prepared food, see recipe.For a dish in the sense of a receptacle for food, see dishware.For dish in the sense of vicious gossip and conversation considered feminine, see camp.For a dish used to receive or transmit radio, television or data, see satellite dish.F..
DISH, Texas
DISH is a town located in Denton County, Texas. The town has a population of approximately 125. Formerly called Clark, the town was officially renamed DISH (all capital letters) in November 2005. The municipality was previously named after its founder, Landis Clark, who incorporated it in June 200..
Disharmonic Orchestra
Disharmonic Orchestra is an Austrian death metal/grindcore band that was formed in Klagenfurt, in 1987. Two demos were recorded which led to a deal with Nuclear Blast in 1989. The first outcome of that deal was a split with country-mates Pungent Stench. There after they released two full-length albu..
Disharmony (Angel episode)
Contents 0.1 Summary0.2 Expanded overview1 Arc significance2 Production details2.1 Music3 Production details4 Quotes and trivia5 See also6 External links Summary As the crew of Angel Investigations attempts to track down a gang of vampires in colour-..
Dishdash
The dishdash is an overgarment worn by some Muslim women. It is an article of clothing worn in accordance with Islamic requirements for modesty of dress. The dishdash resembles a closed-front floorlength robe. The sleeves extend to the wrists. They are often decorated with ornate embroidery, however..
Dishdashah
A dishdashah or thoub is a man's dress common in the Persian Gulf States. Description It is made of one piece of dress that is usually white with wide hand place. The designs vary between different countries and the color is usually white but in the winter it can be in different colors. Good ex..
DishDrawer
DishDrawers are a model of dishwashing machines made by Fisher & Paykel. They are marketed as a set two separate drawers, drawers are sold individually too. Drawers are completely independent of each other, with the intention of being placed either separately or together as the client wishes, an..
Dishman, Washington
Dishman is a census-designated place (CDP) in Spokane County, Washington, United States. The population was 10,031 at the 2000 census. As of 2003, Dishman has been part of Spokane Valley, Washington Geography Dishman is located at [47°39′24″N, 117°16′40″W] (47.656544, -117.277..
DishnetDSL
DishnetDSL is a broadband internet service provider in India. The company offers 512 kbit/s connections in more than 6 states. To check webmail login to http://webmail.vsnl.in External link http://www.eth.net Dishnet has been taken over by VSNL a long time ago. ..
Dishoarding
In economics dishoarding is the opposite of hoarding. In the case of hoarding emphasized most by macroeconomics, someone increases his or her holdings of money as an asset (for safety, to diversify assets, because of expected returns, or because of irrationality) rather than using money simply as a ..
Dishoek
The town centre (dark green) and the statistical district (light green) of Dishoek in the municipality of Veere. Dishoek ([51°28′N 3°31′E]) is a town in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Veere, and lies about 4 km west of Vlissingen. In 2001, t..
Dishon
Dishon (דישון) is a moshav in northern Israel, located along the border with Lebanon, between the towns of Qiryat Shemona and Safed. It is part of the Mevo'ot HaHermon Regional Council. Dishon was established in 1953 by Jewish immigrants from Libya, and named after an abandoned Arab village, Di..
Dishonesty
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DishTV
DishTV is a satellite broadcasting service available to users in India and parts of South East Asia[[Citing sources citation needed]]. It is a commercial service, and offers a variety of plans to choose from, starting from INR 5000[[Citing sources citation nee..
Dishwalla
Dishwalla is a post-grunge alternative rock band from Santa Barbara, California. They are made up of band members Jim Wood (keyboards), Rodney Browning Cravens (guitar master), J.R. Richards (vocals, guitar, and keyboards), Pete 'Cash' Maloney (drums and general percussive energy), and Scot Alexan..
Dishwalla (album)
Dishwalla is the self-titled fifth album by Dishwalla. Track listing "40 Stories""Collide""Ease the Moment""Coral Sky""Winter Sun""Creeps in the Stone""Surrender the Crown""Bleeding Down""Life for Sale""Above the Wreckage""Far Away""Collide" Credits Produced by Sylvia Massy Shivy, Bill Szymczyk a..
Dishware
Some dishware Dishware is a general term for objects—dishes—from which people eat or serve food, such as plates and bowls. The term dinnerware is also often used, although the definition also sometimes includes cutlery. Tableware is a similar term that is also often used. Dinner..
Dishwasher
A dishwasher A double decker dishwasher This article discusses the applience of the same name, for information on manual dishwashing see the Dishwashing article A Dishwasher is a mechanical device for cleaning food utensils for preparation, keeping, serving and eating and drinking. They..
Dishwasher Pete
Dishwasher Pete is the pen name for Pete Jordan, author of the popular Dishwasher zine as well as the forthcoming book of the same title and whose goal was to wash dishes in every state in America. For more than a decade, he moved from city to city, state to state, busting suds in restaurants, hospi..
Dishwasher salt
Dishwasher salt is a particular grade of commercially available crystalline sodium chloride. Dishwasher salt is used for the same purpose as very similar to water softener salt, namely to regenerate ion exchange resins used to remove the hardness ions calcium and magnesium from water. Dishwasher sa..
Dishwashing
A man washing dishes The term dishwashing refers to cleaning eating and cooking utensils, not just dishes. The correct dishwashing method, like all traditions, vary greatly not only geographically but also due to family tradition. Dishwashing requires an implement for the washer to wield, ..
Dishwater (band)
Dishwater was a mid-90s San Diego based jam band. Some members of the band became Convoy. External links [Golden Gater article about the band's manager] ..
Dishyum
Dishyum (2006) is a Tamil film directed by Sasi. The film stars Jeeva, Sandhya, Fakru, Venkat Prabhu, Nassar and Anee Malavika. The film's score and soundtrack are composed by Vijay Antony of Sukran fame. The story tells a love relationship between a stuntman and an art student providing plenty o..
Dish bitch
Dish bitch and the less derogatory dish monkey are slang phrases for an employee of a restaurant who washes dishware, typically a minimum wage position where workers are not well-treated. This is a common job for people who are new to the restaurant industry. The phrases have also found their way ..
Dish Network
Dish Network is a direct broadcast satellite (DBS) service that broadcasts digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States, owned by parent company EchoStar Communications Corporation (NASDAQ: [DISH]). Dish Network was launched in March, 1996, and, along with Di..
Dish TV India
Dish TV is a DTH television service in India. The service offers about 130 national and internatinal channels. Dish TV as such is [offering three packages] at the moment. The package cost includes the equipment cost. A. Dish Easy (Rs.6400/-) includes only the so called Welcome Package, an..
Disibod
Saint Disibod (619-700) was an Irish monk and hermit, first mentioned in a martyrologium by Hrabanus Maurus (9th century). Hildegard of Bingen around 1170 composed a vita of Saint Disibod. According to Hildegard, Disibod came to the Frankish Empire in 640 as a missionary, accompanied by his discip..
Disilane
Disilane General Systematic name Disilicon Hexahydride Other names Disilane, Silicon hydride, Silicon(III) hydride Molecular formula Si2H6 SMILES ? Molar mass 62.219 g/mol Appearance Colourless, odourless flammable gas CAS number [1590-87-0] Properties ..
Disilene
Disilenes are compounds containing a silicon-silicon double bond and are considered to be heavier analogues of alkenes. They are sometimes also called disilaalkenes. History The first transient disilene was synthesized in 1972 by D. N. Roark and Garry J. D. Peddle. The first thermally stable disil..
Disillusion
Disillusion is a German progressive metal band with a unique combination of black, death, progressive and thrash metal. Contents 1 Line-up1.1 Current Line-up1.2 Past members2 Discography3 External links Line-up Current Line-up Vortux (Andy Schmidt) - vocals, Guitar, B..
Disillusionment
Disillusionment is the process of removal of an illusion from the human mind. That is to free it from a belief(s) having no logical bases. Sometimes this leads one into a state of confusion as this is against assumptions one has gathered hitherto in life. Disillusionment in popular culture Some ex..
Disina
Disina is a town in north-east Nigeria some 25 kilometres west of Azare. ..
Disincarnate
Disincarnate was an important early technical death metal band, fronted by guitarist James Murphy, also of Testament, Cancer, Obituary, and Death. James Murphy is often credited as one of the forerunners of melodic metal guitar playing in brutal death metal. Thus far only one album has been released..
Disinfectant (software)
Disinfectant was a popular anti-virus software program for the classic Macintosh operating system. It was originally released as freeware by John Norstad in 1988. New releases continued until the author retired the program in 1998, citing the new danger posed by macro viruses, which Disinfectant did..
Disinfection
'Disinfectant' redirects here. For the Macintosh anti-virus software, see Disinfectant (software). Disinfection is the destruction of pathogenic and other kinds of microorganisms by physical or chemical means. Disinfectants are chemical substances used to destroy viruses and microbes (germs), su..
Disinflation
Disinflation is a decrease in the rate of inflation. Being how much prices are increasing per unit of time, it can be expressed using the word disinflation: The slowing of the rate of inflation per unit of time. For instance in April the rate of inflation was 4.4% and in May the rate of inflation ..
Disinfo
Disinformation Company logo The Disinformation Company is a multimedia company that specializes in presenting information of a controversial, subversive, extreme, or just plain unusual nature. The company publishes a number of books and DVDs, as well as a web site ([disinfo.com]) a..
DisinfoCon
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Disinformation
For the company, see Disinfo Disinformation, in the context of espionage, military intelligence, and propaganda, is the spreading of deliberately false information to mislead an enemy as to one's position or course of action. It also includes the distortion of true information in such a way as to r..
Disinformation: the series
Hosted by Richard Metzger, the TV show Disinformation was aired for two seasons on Channel 4 in the UK as part of their late night "4Later" programming block. Called a "punk rock 60 Minutes" and "wilder than Jackass" by the Los Angeles Times and Wired magazine repectively, the sixteen 30-minute epi..
Disinhibition
Disinhibition can mean: Loss of inhibition, as through the influence of external stimuli such as drugs or alcohol, or as a result of brain damage.Unrestrained behavior resulting from a lessening or loss of inhibitions or a disregard of cultural constraints. Disinhibition is now being mentioned with..
Disintegration
Disintegration is the eighth studio album by rock band The Cure, released in 1989. It peaked at #12 on Billboard's Top 200 Album countdown. It was the first Cure album to be specifically recorded for CD and this is the reason that the vinyl release is without the songs "Last Dance" and "Homesick". ..
Disintegrator ray
The disintegrator ray is a fictional weapon that destroys its targets by disintegrating them down to their individual atoms. The first literary appearance of a disintegrator was in Edison's Conquest of Mars, the 1898 sequel to The War of the Worlds: I had the good fortune to be present when thi..
Disintegrin
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. Disintegrins are typically peptides of around 70 amino acid. They are most common in some snake venoms, and are..
Disintermediation
Although Webvan failed in its goal of disintermediating the North American supermarket industry, several supermarket chains (like Safeway Inc.) have launched their own delivery services to target the niche market to which Webvan catered. In economics, disintermediation is the removal of interm..
Disinvestment
This article is about a form of political sanction. For the privatization of state assets in India see Privatization in India. Disinvestment refers to the use of a concerted economic boycott, with specific emphasis on liquidating stock, to pressure a government towards policy or regime change. The ..
Disjecta
Founded in 2000, Disjecta is a not for profit arts organization in Portland, Oregon. In their first location Disjecta held over 500 shows, showing 3,000 artists and hosting 30,000 patrons. They promote the movement of artists and institutions into the East Side Industrial District of Portland. Th..
Disjoint-set data structure
Given a set of elements, it is often useful to break them up or partition them into a number of separate, nonoverlapping groups. A disjoint-set data structure is a data structure that keeps track of such a partitioning. A union-find algorithm is an algorithm that performs two useful operations on su..
Disjoint sets
In mathematics, two sets are said to be disjoint if they have no element in common. For example, and are disjoint sets. Explanation Formally, two sets A and B are disjoint if their intersection is the empty set, i.e. if [A\cap B = \varnothing.\,] This definition extends to any collec..
Disjoint union
Discriminated union links here. For discriminated unions in computer science, see tagged union In set theory, a disjoint union (or discriminated union) is a union of a collection of sets whose members are pairwise disjoint. Formally, if [C] is a collection of sets, then [\bigcup_ A..
Disjoint union (topology)
In topology and related areas of mathematics, the disjoint union (also called the direct sum, free union, or coproduct) of a family of topological spaces is a space formed by equipping the disjoint union of the underlying sets with a natural topology called the disjoint union topology. The name co..
Disjunct
The term disjunct can refer to: logical disjunctionIn astrology, the term disjunct, or quincunx is an aspect made when two planets are 150 degrees, or five signs apart. Whenever this aspect appears in a horoscope it requires adjustments to be made to ensure success in the endeavours referred to by ..
Disjunction and existence properties
In mathematical logic, the disjunction property is satisfied by a logic if whenever [\phi\vee\psi] is a theorem, then either [\phi] is a theorem, or [\psi] is a theorem. The existence property is satisfied by a logic if whenever [\exists x.\phi(x)] is a..
Disjunction elimination
In propositional logic disjunction elimination is the inference that, if "A or B" is true, and A entails C, and B entails C, then we may justifiably infer C. The reasoning is simple: since at least one of the statements A and B is true, and since either of them would be sufficient to entail C, C is ..
Disjunction introduction
Disjunction introduction or Addition is a valid, simple argument form in logic: A. Therefore, A or B. or in logical operator (sequent) notation: [ A \vdash A \or B ] The argument form has one premise, A, and an unrelated proposition, B. From the premise it can be logically concluded tha..
Disjunctive case
The disjunctive case is a grammatical case in French, where (like other cases) it has a distinct form only for pronouns. Moi et lui, nous sommes allés au parc. I and he, we went to the park.Nous, nous sommes pour; eux, ils sont contre. We are for; they are against.It also serves as a sort of prep..
Disjunctive normal form
"Dnf" redirects here. For , see .: In boolean logic, a disjunctive normal form (DNF) is a standardization (or normalization) of a logical formula which is a disjunction of conjunctive clauses. As a normal form, it is useful in automated theorem proving. A logical formula is considered to be in DNF ..
Disjunctive sequence
A disjunctive sequence is an infinite sequence (over a finite alphabet of characters) in which every finite string appears as a substring. For instance, the binary Champernowne sequence [0\ 1\ 00\ 01\ 10\ 11\ 000\ 001 \ldots] formed by concatenating all binary strings in lexicographical ..
Disjunctive sum
The disjunctive sum of two games is a game in which the two games are played in parallel, with each player being allowed to move in just one of the games per turn. This is extended to disjunctive sums of any number of games by associativity, which results in allowing each player to move in just one..
Disjunctive syllogism
A disjunctive syllogism, also known as modus tollendo ponens (literally: mode which, by denying, affirms) is a valid, simple argument form: P or Q Not P Therefore, Q In logical operator notation: [ p \lor q, ] ¬ [ p \quad] [ \vdash q ] where [\vdash] repres..
Disjunct (linguistics)
In linguistics, a disjunct is a type of adverbial that expresses information that is not considered essential to the sentence it appears in, but which is considered to be the speaker's or writer's attittude towards, or descriptive statement of, the propositional content of the sentence. For instance..
Disjunct distribution
In biology, a taxon with a disjunct distribution is one that has two or more groups that are related but widely separated from each other geographically. See also: geographical isolation ..
Disk
A disk or disc may be: A flying disc or, more specifically, a Frisbee, a disk-shaped toyThe DISC assessment, a psychological testIntervertebral disc, in the spines of vertebratesDisk (mathematics)An accretion disc, in astrophysicsDİSK, the Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions of TurkeyA Park..
Disk-covering method
A disk-covering method is a divide-and-conquer meta-technique for large-scale phylogenetic analysis which has been shown to improve the performance of both heuristics for NP-hard optimization problems and polynomial-time distance-based methods. Disk-covering methods are a meta-technique in that they..
Disk-to-disk
The term "disk-to-disk", or "D2D", generally refers to disk-to-disk backup. With D2D, a computer hard disk is backed up to another hard disk rather than to a tape or floppy. D2D is often confused with Virtual Tape, but differs in that it enables multiple backup and recovery operations to simultane..
DiskDoubler
DiskDoubler (DD) is a data compression utility for compressing files on the Apple Macintosh platform. Unlike most such programs, which compress numerous files into a single archive for transmission, DiskDoubler was intended to compress single files "in place" to save space on the drive. When such a..
DiskDrake
DiskDrake is a computer program for hard disk drive partitioning released under GPL license made as a part of Mandriva Linux, a popular Linux distribution. It is used during the installation of Mandriva Linux, and can also be accessed in the Mandrake Control Center in the mount points category (crea..
Diskeeper
Diskeeper, often abbreviated DK, is a disk defragmenter for Microsoft Windows. It is the flagship product of Diskeeper Corporation, (formerly Executive Software) of Glendale, California, founded on July 22, 1981. The bundled defragmenter for the Windows XP operating system is a stripped-down, ear..
DiskImageMounter
DiskImageMounter is the utility that handles mounting disk images in Mac OS X 10.3. Like BOMArchiveHelper it has no GUI when double-clicked, in fact doing so does nothing. It is found in /System/Library/CoreServices/DiskImageMounter.app. DiskImageMounter works by either launching a daemon to handle..
Disklavier
The trade name Disklavier (DIS-Klah-veer) refers to a [family of piano-related products] originated and continuously manufactured by Yamaha Corporation, based in Hamamatsu, Japan, with branches and subsidiaries worldwide. The Disklavier is, in essence, a reproducing piano system utilizing..
Diskless Nodes
A Diskless Node is a computer on a network that does not load its operating system from a local hard disk. They are still each considered individual computers, or 'nodes' on a network, and are sometimes incorrectly referred to as simply 'workstations'. The operating systems for these computers a..
Diskless workstation
A diskless workstation is a workstation or personal computer without any means of non-volatile storage (hence 'diskless'). Not to be confused with terminals or cut-down PC's acting as such, a diskless workstation is intended to run in a fully 'stand-alone' mode after the initial boot phase. It thu..
Disko
Qeqertarsuatsiaq (or Disko Island)A common misspelling for disco. ..
Diskono
Termed a "a Scottish multi media cabal masquerading as a record label" by the press, Diskono was based in Scotland and existed from 1997 until 2002. With a membership in constant flux it's known and affiliated members were Klaus Oldanburg, Ruth Random, Dr. Barnes Advocaat, Findo Gask, Gunter Saxenha..
Diskonts
redirect [[Template:Not verified]]A virtual organisation on the Latvian Internet claiming to be supporting a "help yourself" approach for zionese orphans. It was founded in the mid 1990s by a group of young people sharing common interests for acting silly and consuming lots of alcohol. Since then "D..
Diskothi-Q
Diskothi-Q is an indie rock band from central California, led by Peter Hughes. The band released five albums between 1994 and 1999, including The Football Albums, a double album consisting of one song about each team in the NFL. They are curently inactive. External links [Diskothi-Q website,..
Disko Bay
Disko Bay is a body of water off of the western coast of Greenland. Although currently an Arctic vacation locale, the bay (69 N 52W, which puts it above the Arctic Circle) has been an important piece of real estate for centuries. The area surrounding Disko Bay was first encountered by Europeans ..
DiskTracker
DiskTracker is an application that indexes the contents of a given volume for easier searching. It has been bundled with almost every edition of MacAddict's CD-ROMs, along with an index file of all previous discs. ..
DiskView
DiskView is a disk management software that graphically shows disk space usage, file fragmentation and hard disk health based on SMART technology within Windows Explorer. DiskView integrates with Windows Explorer to provide disk usage statistics in the form of pie charts and bar graphs. Various f..
Diskworld
Discworld, spelled with a "c", is a series of novels by Terry Pratchett and its fictional setting. Cover to Diskworld issue #1 (1988) Diskworld (ISSN [0899-4838]) was a disk magazine for the Apple Macintosh computer system, published by Softdisk beginning in 1988. It was a sister p..
Disk (mathematics)
In geometry, a disk (also spelled disc) is the region in a plane contained inside of a circle. A disk is said to be closed or open according to whether it contains or not the circle which is its boundary. In Cartesian coordinates, the open disk of center [(a, b)] and radius R is given ..
Disk access time
Disk access time is the time required for a computer to process data from the processor and then retrieve the required data from a storage device, such as a hard drive. ..
Disk algebra
In function theory, the disk algebra (also spelled disc algebra) is the set of continuous functions f : D → C, where D is the closed unit disk in the complex plane C, such that the restriction of f to the interior of D is an analytic function. When endowed with the pointwise addition, (f+..
Disk array
Hewlett-Packard Disk-Arrays: HASS (top) and NIKE (OEM'd Data General SCSI Clariion) EMC CLARiiON CX500 (Cover removed on one Shelf) EMC Symmetrix DMX1000 A disk array is an enterprise storage system which contains multiple disk drives. It is differentiated from a disk enclosure in..
Disk array controller
In computing, a disk array controller is a computer hardware device which provides secondary storage services to computer systems, often in large servers. It is the critical component of a disk array. A disk array controller usually attaches to a number of disk drives in disk enclosures which are ..
Disk Busters Association
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. The “Disk Busters Association” or “The DBA” for short, was a disk magazine and demo group from the N..
Disk cartridge
Disk cartridge has several meanings related to computer storage. Contents 1 1960s storage medium2 Modern storage medium3 Protective casing4 See also 1960s storage medium An early disk cartridge was a single hard disk platter encased in a protective plastic shell. When the re..
Disk checker
Disk checker can scan the contents of a hard disk to find files or areas that are corrupted in some way, or were not correctly saved, and eliminate them for a more efficiently operating hard drive; a Disk cleaner can find files that unnecessary to computer operation, or take up considerable amounts ..
Disk cloning
Disk Cloning is a category of software which copies the contents of one computer hard disk to another. Often, the contents of the first disk are written to an image file as an intermediate step, and the second disk is loaded from the image. A disk cloning program is most commonly used by large comp..
Disk compression
A disk compression software utility increases the amount of information that can be stored on a hard disk drive of given size. Unlike a file compression utility which requires the user to issue explicit commands, a disk compression utility works automatically and user doesn't need to be aware of it..
Disk controller
The disk controller (or "hard disk controller") is the circuit which allows the CPU to communicate with a hard disk, floppy disk or other kind of disk drive. The most common disk controllers in use are Serial ATA, IDE, and SCSI controllers. Most home personal computers use IDE controllers. High end..
Disk Copy
Disk Copy was the default utility for handling disk images in 7 though Mac OS X 10.2 (Usable in System Software 6 as well). In later versions of Mac OS X it has been replaced by DiskImageMounter for mounting the images and Disk Utility for creating them. Supported image formats Disk CopyDisk Copy..
Disk Data Format
The SNIA Common RAID Disk Data Format defines a standard data structure describing how data is formatted across disks in a RAID group. The DDF structure allows a basic level of interoperability between different suppliers of RAID technology. The Common RAID DDF structure benefits storage users by en..
Disk defragmenter
A disk defragmenter is a computer program designed to increase access speed (and sometimes increase the amount of usable space) by rearranging files stored on a disk to occupy contiguous storage locations. Disk defragmenters are available for many platforms, the most common being those included with..
Disk editor
A disk editor is a computer program that lets the user read, edit, and write the low-level raw data on a disk drive (a hard disk or floppy disk drive). Such an editor may be used e.g. to repair/reconstruct damaged files and directories (and, for that matter, damage them in the first place). Disk ed..
Disk enclosure
A disk enclosure is a computer storage device designed to contain disk drives. The term is normally used to differentiate such a device from a more advanced disk array which contains a controller and supports RAID. Therefore, a disk enclosure is a simple container, sometimes with a power supply,..
Disk encryption
Disk encryption is a special case of data at rest protection when the storage media is a sector-addressable device (e.g., a hard disk). This article presents cryptographic aspects of the problem. For discussion of different software packages devoted to this problem see disk encryption software. Co..
Disk encryption hardware
To protect confidentiality of the data stored on a computer disk a computer security technique called disk encryption is used. This article discusses hardware which is used to implement the technique (for cryptographic aspects of the problem see disk encryption). Compared to access restrictions comm..
Disk encryption software
To protect confidentiality of the data stored on a computer disk a computer security technique called disk encryption is used. This article discusses software which is used to implement the technique (for cryptographic aspects of the problem see disk encryption). Compared to access restrictions comm..
Disk failure
In computing, a disk failure occurs when a hard disk drive malfunctions and the stored information cannot be accessed with a properly configured computer. A disk failure may occur in the course of normal operation, or due to an external factor such as exposure to fire or water or High Magneticwaves,..
Disk filter
A disk filter is a type of water filter used primarily in irrigation, similar to a screen filter, except that the filter cartridge is made of a number of disks stacked on top of each other like a pile of poker chips. The water passes through the small grooves in between and the impurities are trapp..
Disk First Aid
Disk First Aid is a software utility made by Apple Computer, bundled with Mac OS, which verifies and repairs the directory structure of any HFS or HFS Plus hard disk or volume. Disk First Aid performs an analysis of the disk directory structures looking for specific types of damage that are known t..
Disk formatting
Formatting a hard drive using MS-DOS Disk formatting is the only process of preparing the layout of data how to store in a hard disk or other storage medium and we call this layout: the file system (FAT, NTFS, UFS, etc.). A variety of utilities and programs exist for this task; pictured to th..
Disk II
The Disk II was a 5¼-inch floppy disk drive designed by Steve Wozniak and manufactured by Apple Computer. It was first introduced in 1978 at a retail price of US$495 for pre-order; it was later sold for $595 including the controller card and cable. The Disk II was designed specifically for use wi..
Disk image
Optical disc authoring Optical discOptical disc imageRecorder hardwareAuthoring softwareRecording technologies* Recording modes* Packet writing Optical media types CD/CD-ROM: CD-R, CD-RWDVD: DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD+R DL, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM Standards Rainbow BooksFile systems* ISO 9660**..
Disk image emulator
A disk image emulator is computer software designed to emulate a disk image, usually of a CD or DVD, on a local hard drive. The emulation is usually done by creating a virtual drive on the system, that to the operating system looks like an ordinary disk drive. In short, it puts a permanent copy of..
Disk integration
Topics in calculus Fundamental theorem Limits of functions Continuity Vector calculusTensor calculus Mean value theorem Differentiation Product rule Quotient rule Chain rule Implicit differentiation Taylor's theorem Related rates Table of derivatives Integration Lists of i..
Disk magazine
An example of an Amiga diskmag graphical user interface.Source: Jurassic Pack, Issue 13. A disk magazine, also known as a diskmagazine, diskmag, magazine on disk, or magazette (a portmanteau for "magazine on diskette"), is a magazine that is distributed in electronic form to be read usin..
Disk mirror
In data storage, a disk mirror is a complete separate copy of a data set. Explanation Mirroring is a common function found in enterprise storage and RAID devices. In particular, RAID 1 is a disk mirroring scheme. It is differentiated from a snapshot in that there are no remaining links between..
Disk mirroring
Disk mirroring is the replication of data on separate disks in real time to ensure continuous availability, currency and accuracy. Disk mirroring can function as a Disaster Recovery solution by performing the mirroring remotely and over distance. Depending on the technologies used, mirroring can ..
Disk on module
A Disk on Module (DOM) is a Flash (Fast electronic memory) Disk with 40/44 pins IDE/Standard ATA Interface used in computer Hard Disk Drive (HDD). DOM are highly reliable as they do not have any moving parts like regular hard disks and are small in size and light in weight. ..
Disk operating system
For other uses of "", see {{{1. Disk Operating System (specifically) and disk operating system (generically), most often abbreviated as DOS (not to be confused with the DOS family of disk operating systems for the IBM PC compatible platform), refer to operating system software used in most computer..
Disk Order
Disk Order is a shareware Norton Commander like Orthodox File Manager (OFM) for Mac OS X. See also List of file managersList of FTP clientsComparison of file managersComparison of FTP clients External link [The official site of Disk Order] ..
Disk pack
Disk pack is a layered grouping of hard disk platters (circular, rigid discs coated with a magnetic data storage surface). Disk pack is the core component of a hard disk drive. In modern hard disks, the disk pack is permanently sealed inside the drive. In early hard disks, the disk pack was a remova..
Disk partitioning
In computer engineering, hard disk drive partitioning is the creation of logical divisions upon a hard disk that allows one to apply operating system-specific logical formatting. [[wikibooks:Guide to Unix|Wikibooks Guide to Unix]] has more about this subject: [[wikibooks:Guide to Unix/Explanati..
Disk quota
A disk quota is a limit set by a system administrator that restricts certain aspects of file system usage on modern operating systems. Contents 1 Types of quotas2 Quota specification3 Quota violation4 Administering quotas5 See also Types of quotas There are two basic typ..
Disk read-and-write head
Microphotograph of a hard disk head. The size of the front face is about 0.3 * 1.0 mm. One functional part of the head is the round, orange structure in the middle - the lithographically defined copper coil of the write transducer. Also note the electric connections by wires bonded to gold-plated..
Disk snapshot
In data storage, a disk snapshot is a copy of the state of a storage device at some instant in time. Its primary purpose is to reduce the "backup window" to zero time, to eliminate the dilemma caused by simple "full backups": A full backup to tape may take hours. If users are allowed to access that..
Disk staging
Disk staging - Backup data is written to hard disk rathen than directly to tape (usually a slower technology). Then the data stored in the disk staging area is written to tape in a background process. ..
Disk storage
Disk storage is a group of data storage mechanisms for computers; data are transferred to planar surfaces or disks for temporary or permanent storage. Disk drive is a peripheral device used to read from and write to a disk. In the early 1960s single data bits were stored as magnetic charges in magn..
Disk Utility
Disk Utility is the name of a utility created by Apple Computer for performing disk-related tasks in Mac OS X. These tasks include: the creation of disk images;mounting, unmounting, and ejecting disks (including both hard disks, removable media and disk images);enabling or disabling journaling;ver..
Disley
Disley is a village in the county of Cheshire, in the north west of England, in the Goyt Valley, very close to the county boundary with Derbyshire at New Mills, and south of Stockport, Greater Manchester. It is in the borough of Macclesfield. Today it is a dormitory village retaining a semi-rural ch..
Disley railway station
Disley railway station is on the Stockport to Buxton line. {| class="wikitable" style="margin: 0.5em auto; text-align: center;" |- ! Preceding station ! colspan="3" | National Rail ! Following station ..
Disley Tunnel
Disley Tunnel was built by the Midland Railway in 1902 on its line between New Mills South Junction, and Manchester Central, which was more direct than the congested and difficult lines through Stockport Teviot Dale. It was the most expensive work on the line and at 3,866 yards (3,535 m), the ..
DISLIN
DISLIN is a high-level and easy to use plotting library developed by Helmut Michels at the Max Planck Institute in Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany. Helmut Michels is working as a mathematician and Unix system manager at the computer center of the institute. The DISLIN library contains routines and funct..
Dislocation
For the syntactic operation, see Dislocation (syntax) For the medical term, see Dislocation (medicine) In materials science, a dislocation is a linear crystallographic defect, or irregularity, within a crystal structure. The presence of dislocations strongly influences many of the properties of rea..
Dislocation (medicine)
Dislocated left index finger Lateral X-ray of left index finger dislocation Dislocation (joint dislocation) occurs when bones at a joint move from their normal position. It is usually caused by a sudden impact to the joint location. The ligaments almost always become damaged as a result o..
Dislocation (syntax)
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Dislocation of hip
A dislocated hip is a condition that can be congenital or acquired. Congenital hip dislocations are much more common in girls than in boys. External links eMedicine [emerg/144][Illustration at Medline] ..
Dislocation of Sami people
The Disclocation of Sami people refers to the ordered movement of 300-400 Sami peoples from Jukkasjärvi and Karesuando in the 1930s. This was outermost a result of political nature between Norway and Russia, where Norway denied diplomatical relationship with Russia. Russia answered by cutting off a..
Disloyal statements
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Dismal Euphony
Dismal Euphony were a multifaceted black metal band from Norway that mixed styles including death metal, rock, classical music and western. They released four albums from 1996-2001, and later disbanded. Keyboardist Elin Overskott died from an overdose in 2004. ..
Dismal Mountains
Dismal Mountains ([68°5′S 55°25′E]) is a group of nunataks about 35 miles southwest of Rayner Peak. They were photographed from ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions) aircraft in 1956, and surveyed by G.A. Knuckey during a dog-sledge journey from Amundsen Bay to M..
Dismal Science
The dismal science is another, often derogatory, name for economics devised by the Victorian historian Thomas Carlyle. The term is an inversion of the phrase "gay science", meaning "life-enhancing knowledge". This was a familiar expression at the time, and was later adopted as the title of a book by..
Dismal Swamp Canal
Dismal Swamp Canal is located along the eastern edge of the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia and North Carolina in the United States. It is the oldest continually operating man-made canal in the United States, opened in 1805. It is part of the Intracoastal Waterway, an inland route which parallels the..
Dismantled
Dismantled is an EBM group from the United States; its sole member is Gary Zon. History Dismantled is the product of an experiment that began in late 2000 by Gary Zon, who was attempting to create something similar to Front Line Assembly's sound. After overwhelming positive feedback from online ..
Dismantling Devotion
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Dismasters
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Dismas Nsengiyaremye
Dismas Nsengiyaremye (born 1945) served as Prime Minister of Rwanda from 2 April 1992 to 18 July 1993. He was a member of the Democratic Republican Movement. |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Dismemberment
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Dismember (band)
Dismember is a Swedish death metal band, formed in Stockholm in 1988. After a hiatus, the band began recording in earnest in 1991 and released their debut, Like an Ever Flowing Stream in 1991. The album became an early example of Scandinavian death metal and established the band's fanbase, which g..
Dismissal
In litigation, a dismissal the result of a successful motion to dismiss. See motion (legal).In employment law, a dismissal is the termination of a contract of employment.In the sport of cricket, a dismissal is also known as taking a wicket or getting the batsman out. See dismissal (cricket).The Au..
Dismissal (cricket)
In the sport of cricket, a dismissal occurs when the batsman is out (also known as taking a wicket). Contents 1 Ways of getting out1.1 Law 2.9(b) : Retired1.2 Law 30 : Bowled1.3 Law 31 : ..
Dismissed
Dismissed is a reality television show on MTV that premiered in 2001. On each episode, three people go on a date, one will be dismissed. The daters each choose a place to go (total of 2 places) and the person who's running the date dismisses the person he/she doesn't like. There is also the time-ou..
Dismorphiinae
Dismorphiinae (or mimic sulfurs) is a subfamily of butterflies from the family Pieridae. It consists of about 100 species in 7 genera, distributed mainly in the Neotropical region of which only one occurs in North America and one genus, Leptidea in the Palaeartic. Genera DismorphiaEnantiaLeptidea..
Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears
Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears was an American animated television series that aired in the United States and other countries in the mid-to-late-1980s. The show was created by The Walt Disney Company and premiered on NBC on September 14, 1985, and continued to air on ABC until it ended in ..
Disney's Aladdin (video game)
Disney's Aladdin was a video game based on the 1992 motion picture of the same name, released in the 16-bit era. Curiously, unlike most multiplatform games of both then and now, the two versions (Sega Mega Drive/Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo Entertainment System) are in fact two completely differ..
Disney's All-Star Movies Resort
Disney's All-Star Movies Resort is one of the Walt Disney World Resorts located at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. It is one of 4 Disney Resorts in the "Value" category along with Disney's All-Star Sports Resort, Disney's All-Star Music Resort, and Disney's Pop Century Resort. The resort is..
Disney's All-Star Music Resort
The All-Star Music Resort is one of 4 themed "value resorts" located at the Walt Disney World Resort, in Orlando, Florida. This resort features a music theme and similar to Disney's All-Star Sports Resort, Disney's All-Star Movies Resort, and Disney's Pop Century Resort, this resort is decorated wi..
Disney's All-Star Sports Resort
Current logo for Disney All-Star Sports Resort. Disney's All-Star Sports Resort is a resort that is part of Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. It is one of four Resorts in the Value Resort category, along with Disney's All-Star Music Resort, Disney's All-Star Movies Resort, and Disney's P..
Disney's America
Disney's America was a theme park that was to be built by The Walt Disney Company in Haymarket, Virginia. After concept plans were drawn up for the history-based attraction in 1993, it became Michael Eisner's pet project [link], and he even obtained the support of the Virginia Commission ..
Disney's Animal Kingdom
For the biological Kingdom Animalia, see Animal. Disney theme park The Tree of Life is the icon of Disney's Animal Kingdom Disney's Animal Kingdom Location Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA Opening Day April 22, 1998 Resort Walt Disney World Resort Theme Animals, dinosaurs and explora..
Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge
Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge is a "deluxe" classed hotel resort in the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida and opened on April 16, 2001. The resort is located very close to Disney's Animal Kingdom and has an African theme that blends in seamlessly to the large preserve it is bui..
Disney's Beach Club Resort
Disney's Beach Club Resort is a beach-themed resort which is part of the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida. The Beach Club Resort is one of the Epcot Area Resorts. It is located on the lagoon which lies between Epcot and Disney-MGM Studios and is close enough to walk to either Epcot's I..
Disney's Beach Club Villas
Disney's Beach Club Villas is a Disney Vacation Club Timeshare resort at the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. It opened on July 1, 2002 and is the fourth Disney Vacation Club Resort operating at Walt Disney World. It sits on six acres (2.4 ha) of land and consists of 282 un..
Disney's Beauty & The Beast: A Boardgame Adventure
Disney's Beauty & The Beast: A Boardgame Adventure is an Disney Boardgame adventure for the Game Boy Color. ..
Disney's Beauty and the Beast (video game)
Disney's Beauty and Beast is a Super NES action game for girls that is played through the perspective of the Beast. As the Beast, the player must get Belle to fall in love so that she will marry him and become a princess. The final boss of the game is Gaston, a hunter who will try to steal Belle fro..
Disney's Blizzard Beach
Blizzard Beach is a water park located within the Walt Disney World resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. The park opened in April of 1995 and was the third WDW water park after River Country and Typhoon Lagoon. The theme of the park is the "Disney legend" of a freak snowstorm in the area, leadi..
Disney's BoardWalk Inn
Disney's BoardWalk Inn is a hotel at the Walt Disney World Resort and opened on July 1, 1996. It was built to be very reminiscent of the boardwalks that were famous along Coney Island, New York in the 1920s-1940s. The sherbet-colored facades, flagged turrets, striped awnings, and even the watersli..
Disney's BoardWalk Resort
Disney's BoardWalk Resort is a hotel at the Walt Disney World Resort. It is more commonly referred to as Disney's BoardWalk Inn and Disney's BoardWalk Villas. Located along the actual boardwalk are a number of shops(like the Screen Door General Store and Thimbles & Threads) and restaurants(like th..
Disney's BoardWalk Villas
Disney's BoardWalk villas is a Disney Vacation Club Resort which is part of Walt Disney World resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida and opened on July 1, 1996. It is themed as a 1940's era hotel, overlooking a boardwalk, adjacent to Crescent Lake. The boardwalk and lake offer many shops, restaurants..
Disney's California Adventure
Disney theme park Grizzly Peak is the icon of Disney's California Adventure Disney's California Adventure Park Location Anaheim, California, USA Opening Day February 8, 2001 Resort Disneyland Resort Theme California Website [Disneyland Resort Homepage] Operator The ..
Disney's California Adventure entertainment history
Disney Theme Parks have a history of entertainment. Disney's California Adventure Park has had it's own set: Contents 1 20011.1 Eureka! The California Adventure Parade1.2 Steps in Time1.3 Lights, Camera, Chaos!1.4 Goofy's Beach Party Bash1.5 ..
Disney's Caribbean Beach Resort
Disney's Caribbean Beach Resort is a resort which is located in Walt Disney World at Lake Buena Vista, Florida. It is located in the Epcot area of Walt Disney World and is classified as a moderately priced resort. The resort started operating on October 1, 1988. The Caribbean Beach Resort is desi..
Disney's Cartoon Arcade
Disney's Cartoon Arcade is a 1990 computer game by Cliff Johnson created for Disney Home Video for use on View-Master's InteractiveVision System. Designed as a 30-minute gameshow, the player could watch classic Disney cartoon video clips and then play 10 different arcade games based on those cl..
Disney's Comics in 3-D
Disney's Comics in 3-D is a comic book made by The Walt Disney Company in 1992. Unlike most comic books the stories are drawn in 3-D. The first issue had Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Uncle Scrooge, and Duck Tales, and the second issue had all Roger Rabbit stories. ..
Disney's Contemporary Resort
Newer Logo Older Logo Disney's Contemporary Resort is a resort hotel located at Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando, Florida. It is owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company, and first opened on October 1, 1971, at which time it featured state-of-the-art facilities. It is currently..
Disney's Coronado Springs Resort
Disney's Coronado Springs Resort is a hotel at the Walt Disney World Resort that opened on August 1, 1997. This resort reveals its Southwestern U.S.-Mexican theme in such [[wiktionary:element|elements]] as a tiled stucco lobby and a pyramid with water tumbling down it that appears to have created ..
Disney's Davy Crockett Ranch
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Disney's Dixie Landings Resort
Disnet's Dixie Landings Resort was a Walt Disney World Resort that opened on February 2, 1992. It is now known as Disney's Port Orleans Riverside Resort. See also Disney's Port Orleans Resort ..
Disney's Electrical Parade (2001 CD)
Disney's Electrical Parade (2001 CD) was the soundtrack CD released for Disney's Electrical Parade at Disney's California Adventure in 2001. Track listing "Disney's Electrical Parade (Original Version)" – 11:06 Official track notes 1. Disney's Electrical Parade (Original Version) Fanfare & Ope..
Disney's Extreme Skate Adventure
Disney's Extreme Skate Adventure is a video game of the sports genre released in 2003 by Toys for Bob. External links [Disney's Extreme Skate Adventure] at MobyGames ..
Disney's Fairy Tale Wedding Pavilion
Disney's Fairy Tale Wedding Pavilion is an exclusive area of Disney's Grand Floridian Resort and Spa for weddings, re-exchanging of vows and proclamations that opened on July 15, 1995. Located on the shores of the Seven Seas Lagoon on it's own little island just South of the resort, it serves as the..
Disney's Fantillusion
Disney's Fantillusion is a night-time parade at Disneyland Park in Disneyland Resort Paris. The incarnation that is performed today at Disneyland Park is a reduced version of the original production of the parade, formerly performed at Tokyo Disneyland at the Tokyo Disney Resort. Created in 199..
Disney's Fantillusion! (1995 CD)
Disney's Fantillusion (1995 CD) was the soundtrack album released for Disney's Fantillusion parade in Tokyo Disneyland in 1995. Out of print. Track listing "The Enchanted Fairy Garden""Fairy Garden Fantasy""The Evil Villians""The Light Turns Into Night and the Ghouls Dance""The Happy Ending (Hero..
Disney's Fluppy Dogs
Disney's Fluppy Dogs was a one-hour animated television special which aired in November 27, 1986, and was intended to be a pilot for the third Walt Disney Television animated series. It featured six pastel-colored talking dogs which came through an interdimensional doorway into the lives of ten ye..
Disney's Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground
Disney's Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground is a resort which is located in Walt Disney World at Orlando, Florida and is one of the resorts in the Magic Kingdom Area of Walt Disney World. The resort officially opened on November 19, 1971, just weeks after the Walt Disney World Resort opened to t..
Disney's Grand Californian Hotel & Spa
Disneyland Resort 50th Anniversary Disneyland park Disney's California Adventure park Downtown Disney Disneyland Hotel Disney's Paradise Pier Hotel Disney's Grand Californian Hotel Disney's Grand Californian Hotel & Spa is a hotel located at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California...
Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa
Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa is a themed hotel and spa located at Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando, Florida. It is categorized as a deluxe resort (one of four types of accommodations at the Florida site) and is widely considered to be the vacation resort's most luxurious hotel. The ..
Disney's Halloween Treat
Disney's Halloween Treat (1982) is a compilation of Disney shorts involving classic Disney villains and is narrated by the Magic Mirror from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. ..
Disney's Hide and Sneak
Disney's Hide and Sneak is a video game of the action-adventure genre released in 2003 by Capcom. ..
Disney's Hollywood Hotel
Disney's Hollywood Hotel one of two hotels at Hong Kong Disneyland Resort in Penny's Bay, Lantau Island, Hong Kong. It opened in 2005 along with the rest of the resort. It is themed to 1930s Hollywood. External links [Official site] ..
Disney's Hotel Cheyenne
Disney's Hotel Cheyenne is a 1000-room hotel built in the American Frontier-style. The buildings are designed to represent a Native American village in the Old West. The hotel, built in 1991, offers a free shuttle to Disneyland Paris and has a restaurant called Chuch Wagon Cafe. [hotel webpa..
Disney's Hotel New York
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Disney's Hotel Santa Fe
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Disney's House of Mouse
Disney's House of Mouse is an animated television series, produced by Walt Disney Television, that originally aired from 2001 to 2003, and ran for 52 episodes. Mickey Mouse and his friends run a nightclub called the "House of Mouse," which shows Disney cartoons as part of its floor show. Many ch..
Disney's Kim Possible: Global Gemini
Disney's Kim Possible: Global Gemini is the sixth video game of the Kim Possible series. ..
Disney's Kim Possible: Revenge of Monkey Fist
Disney's Kim Possible: Revenge of Monkey Fist is the first video game of the Kim Possible series. Doctor Drakken has kidnapped Ron, forcing Kim to locate Doctor Drakken's secret headquarters and rescue Ron. The game places the player in the role of Kim. ..
Disney's Kim Possible: What's the Switch?
Disney's Kim Possible: What's the Switch? is the fifth video game of the Kim Possible series. In the video game, Kim and Shego are forced to work together. ..
Disney's Kim Possible 2: Drakken's Demise
Disney's Kim Possible 2: Drakken's Demise is the second video game of the Kim Possible series. The game places the player in the role of Kim to defeat Doctor Drakken, Shego, Duff Killigan, Gemini, and Falsetto Jones. Gadgets Grappling hook hairdrier: Kim's deafult gadget.Elastic Constricting Age..
Disney's Kim Possible 3: Team Possible
Disney's Kim Possible 3: Team Possible is the third video game of the Kim Possible series. Kim and Ron has teamed up to form Team Possible, to defeat Doctor Drakken, Shego, and other super villains. The game places the player in the role of Kim or Ron. ..
Disney's LuminAria
Disney's LuminAria was a low-level fireworks show on Paradise Bay at Disney's California Adventure at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California. The show was short lived, lasting only one winter season. The show design was similar to [[IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth]] at Epcot focusing t..
Disney's Magical Mirror Starring Mickey Mouse
Disney's Magical Mirror, or Disney's Magical Mirror Starring Mickey Mouse, is a Disney Adventure game for the Nintendo GameCube. Gameplay The game uses a simple point and click mechanic which involves using a cursor to guide Mickey Mouse to various locations. At certain points, Mickey will be able ..
Disney's Magical Quest
Disney's Magical Quest , or Disney's Magical Quest Starring Mickey and Minnie is an Disney Adventure game for the Super Famicom, Super NES, Mega Drive/Genesis and Game Boy Advance. It was originally released for the Super NES in 1992, and was remade for the Game Boy Advance in 2002. It's one of Ca..
Disney's Mickey Mouse Clubhouse
Disney's Mickey Mouse Clubhouse is a children's television series, the premiered in prime time on Disney Channel on May 5, 2006. The program is part of Playhouse Disney's weekend schedule at 9:00 and 9:30. Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, Goofy, on Pluto star in this series,..
Disney's Mineral King Ski Resort
Disney's Mineral King Ski Resort was a project developed by Walt Disney and The Walt Disney Company in the late 1950s and 1960s. Disney had become interested in skiing around this time and decided to build a ski resort in Mineral King Valley, California, USA. The site is located just Southwest of ..
Disney's Music From The Park (1996 CD)
Disney's Music From The Park (1996 CD) was a compliation of celebrities singing Disney theme park songs. Out of print. Track listing "Zip"-A-Dee-Doo-Dah - Splash Mountain* Performed by Patti AustinYo Ho (A Pirate's Life for Me) - Pirates of the Caribbean* Performed by The Pointer SistersIt's a Sm..
Disney's Newport Bay Club
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Disney's Nine Old Men
Disney's Nine Old Men were the core animators (some of whom later became directors) that created the Disney studio's most famous work, from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs onward to The Rescuers. Walt Disney jokingly called this group of animators his "Nine Old Men", referring to what Franklin D. Ro..
Disney's Old Key West Resort
Disney's Old Key West Resort is a time-share property at the Walt Disney World Resort. It opened on December 20, 1991 and was formerly known as Disney's Vacation Club Resort. It was the first Disney Vacation Club Timeshare Resort, and has the largest rooms of any of the seven Disney Vacation Club ..
Disney's One Too
LEGEND New Time New Show Disney's One Too was a spinoff of Disney's One Saturday Morning, and resembled The Disney Afternoon. In the summer of 1999, UPN and Disney began a programming alliance where UPN would air two hours of Disney children's programming during its kids block on Sun..
Disney's Paradise Pier Hotel
Disneyland Resort 50th Anniversary Disneyland park Disney's California Adventure park Downtown Disney Disneyland Hotel Disney's Paradise Pier Hotel Disney's Grand Californian Hotel Disney's Paradise Pier Hotel, formerly the Disneyland Pacific Hotel, is a hotel resort at the Disneyland R..
Disney's Party
Disney's Party is a video game of the party game genre released in 2002 by Hudson Soft. External links [Disney's Party] at MobyGames ..
Disney's PK: Out of the Shadows
Disney's PK: Out of the Shadows is a video game of the action-adventure genre released in 2002 by Ubisoft. External links [Disney's PK: Out of the Shadows] at MobyGames ..
Disney's Pocahontas: The Voice of the Wind
Disney's Pocahontas: The Voice of the Wind is A Little Golden Book from Golden Books. It was written by Justine Korman, and illustrated by Peter Emslie and Don Williams. Written for children age 4-8, the book features Disney's version of the Native American girl, Pocahontas. It was published in No..
Disney's Polynesian Resort
New Polynesian Resort's logo Old Polynesian Resort's logo Disney's Polynesian Resort is a Disney-owned Deluxe resort located at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Florida that began operation on October 1, 1971. The resort has a South Pacific and Hawaiian theme. It was originally c..
Disney's Pop Century Resort
Disney's Pop Century Resort is a resort at the Walt Disney World Resort. It is one of four hotels that make up the "value resort" group. The hotel is themed around different decades in American culture. Much like the other resorts within the value category, there are supersized versions of various..
Disney's Port Orleans Resort
Disney's Port Orleans Resort French Quarter and Disney's Port Orleans Resort Riverside are a pair of resorts at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, themed to look and feel like guests are actually staying the night in New Orleans or the old South. Both resorts are located in the Downto..
Disney's River Country
River Country was a water park located at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida. It opened on June 20, 1976 and last operated in November 2001. On January 20, 2005, The Walt Disney Company announced that River Country would remain closed permanently. Positioned on the shore of Bay Lake near..
Disney's Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa
Disney's Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa is the newest Disney Vacation Club Timeshare resort at the Walt Disney World Resort. The resort is the seventh Disney Vacation Club resort and is situated on the former grounds of the Disney Institute. It first welcomed guests on May 17, 2004 and is being b..
Disney's Sequoia Lodge
The Disney's Sequoia Lodge Hotel at the Disneyland Resort Paris in Marne-la-Vallée, France is a 1011-room hotel that is designed to evoke images of those typically found in American national parks. The main lodge faces across Lake Disney towards the Disney Village, and is home to many of the 10..
Disney's Stitch: Experiment 626
Disney's Stitch: Experiment 626 is a PS2 Computer role-playing game (or RPG). Also a prequel to Lilo & Stitch. In the game the player plays Experiment 626 as he battles robots, mutated monsters (called Greemas) and causes mass destruction. (Also features Experiment 621) Story Disney's Stitch: Ex..
Disney's Take Flight
Take Flight (June 5 1996–January, 1998)was an attraction in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World Resort. Take Flight was a slight refreshening of an attraction called Delta Dreamflight, which was sponsored by Delta Airlines from 1989 through 1996. All references to Delta were removed and the att..
Disney's Tarzan Untamed
Disney's Tarzan: Untamed is a video game of the action-adventure genre released in 2001 by Ubisoft Montreal for the PlayStation 2 and was a launch title for the GameCube. ..
Disney's The Lion King
Disney's The Lion King (ISBN 0736412409) is a book from Disney Press's Disney Books for Young Readers, illustrated by Peter Emslie. This hardcover book is for preschoolers is 16 pages long and is 5.98" x 6.26". The board edition of this book was released November 27, 2001, and there is rumored to ..
Disney's The Little Mermaid II: Pinball Frenzy
Disney's The Little Mermaid II: Pinball Frenzy is a Disney pinball video game for the Game Boy Color. ..
Disney's Typhoon Lagoon
Typhoon Lagoon is a water park located within the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. The park, which opened on June 1, 1989, is home to the world's largest outdoor wave pool. The theme of the park is the "Disney legend" of a typhoon that wreaked havoc upon a formerly pristin..
Disney's Vero Beach Resort
Disney's Vero Beach Resort is a Disney Vacation Club Timeshare resort located in Vero Beach, Florida. External links ..
Disney's Wide World of Sports
The Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex is a 220 acre state of the art sports facility that consists of 8 venues. The Ballpark at Disney's Wide World of Sports is a 9500-seat baseball stadium used by the Atlanta Braves for spring training. The Milk House is a 5000-seat arena used for indoor sports..
Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex
Located in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, Disney’s Wide World of Sports Complex is an athletic complex that features a 8,000 seated ballpark called Cracker Jack Stadium and a 10,000 seated soccer stadium. ..
Disney's Wilderness Lodge
Disney's Wilderness Lodge is a large, 729-room deluxe resort hotel in the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida, United States. It was designed by the Urban Design Group and opened on May 28, 1994. It is Walt Disney World's most popular resort as ranked by readers of Disney Magazine. The resort is t..
Disney's Yacht Club Resort
Disney's Yacht Club Resort is a nautical-themed resort which is part of Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida which opened on November 5, 1990. One of several Epcot Area Resorts, it is located next to Disney's Beach Club Resort and across the lagoon from Disney's BoardWalk Resort. Boat transportat..
Disney, Oklahoma
Disney is a town in Mayes County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 226 at the 2000 census. Geography Disney is located at [36°28′39″N, 95°1′13″W] (36.477501, -95.020272)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town ha..
Disney-ABC Television Group
Disney-ABC Television Group is home to all of The Walt Disney Company's U.S. and global entertainment and news television properties. The Group includes the ABC Television Network, Disney Channel’s worldwide portfolio of kids channels, ABC Family and SOAPnet; as well as television production and ..
Disney-MGM Studios
Disney theme park The Sorcerer's Hat is the icon of the Disney-MGM Studios The Disney-MGM Studios Location Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA Opening Day May 1, 1989 Resort Walt Disney World Resort Theme Hollywood, showbusiness and movie-making Website [Disney-MGM Studios homep..
Disney-MGM Studios Paris
The Disney-MGM Studios Paris was to be a theme park at the Euro Disney Resort in Marne-la-Vallee, France, next door to Euro Disneyland. The park was to be the second Disney-MGM Studios theme park, the first being in Lake Buena Vista, Florida at the Walt Disney World Resort. However, the Euro Disney..
Disneyana
Disneyana is a generic term for toys, books, animation cels, theme park souvenirs and other collectibles produced by Walt Disney, featuring such characters as Mickey Mouse and Tinker Bell. While used informally among collectors in the 1960's and 1970's, the term was brought to prominence with the p..
Disneyfication
Disneyfication or Disneyization, (also rendered "McDisneyization") are neologisms, taken from the name of The Walt Disney Company, to describe what some see as the way principles of Disney theme parks are spreading throughout society. Sharon Zukin (1996) uses the former term in her book The Cultures..
Disneyland
This article is about Disneyland, a theme park in Anaheim, California USA. For other Disney parks and attractions, see Walt Disney Parks and Resorts or . For the television series originally titled Disneyland, see Walt Disney anthology series. Disney theme park Sleeping Beauty Castle is decorate..
Disneyland, Inc.
Disneyland, Inc. was the company jointly owned by Walt Disney Productions and the American Broadcasting Company from 1955-1960, which managed and built the Disneyland theme park in Anaheim, California. In 1960, Walt Disney purchased ABC's share of Disneyland, Inc., and the theme park became a full..
Disneyland/Walt Disney World: The Official Album (1997 CD)
Disneyland/Walt Disney World: The Official Album (1997 CD) was the official album released for Disneyland and Walt Disney World in 1997. Track Listing Fantasyland Castle Medley - Fantasyland Castle (5:48)* When You Wish Upon a Star* Once Upon a Dream* A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes* Some Day ..
Disneyland/Walt Disney World Music Vacation
Disneyland/Walt Disney World Music Vacation was a 2 CD set only released in Japan in 1997. Out of print. Contents 1 Track listing1.1 Disc 11.2 Disc 22 Track Notes2.1 Disc 12.2 Disc 23 Production3.1 Disc 13.2 Disc 2 Track listing Disc 1 "Light Magic" ..
Disneyland: Haunted Mansion Holiday (2003 CD)
Disneyland: Haunted Mansion Holiday (2003 CD) was the official album released for the updated Haunted Mansion Holiday soundtrack in 2003. In print. Track listing "Up on the Housetop""Scary Bells""Over the Graveyards""Old Mansion Tree""Wreck the Halls""We Wish You a Scary Christmas""The 13 Days of..
Disneyland: The First 50 Magical Years
Disneyland Park Attractions 50th Anniversary Main Street, U.S.A. Disneyland RailroadMain Street CinemaGreat Moments with Mr. Lincoln[[Disneyland: The First 50 Magical Years]]Main Street Vehicles Fire EngineHorse-Drawn StreetcarsHorseless CarriageOmnibus Fantasyland Alice in WonderlandCasey ..
Disneyland 10th Anniversary
Disneyland 10th Anniversary, aired in 1965, begins with Walt showing viewers and a Disneyland ambassador plans for upcoming attractions, including "it's a small world", Pirates of the Caribbean and the Haunted Mansion. Then it's on to Disneyland, where we meet the Disney characters celebrating Disne..
Disneyland After Dark
For the Danish rock band formerly known as "Disneyland After Dark", see D-A-D. Disneyland After Dark was an episode of Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color that aired on April 15, 1962. Later, it was released theatrically overseas as a short subject. As the name of the episode implies, Walt Disne..
Disneyland Hotel
The Disneyland Hotel is the name of hotels at three of The Walt Disney Company's resorts across the globe. Contents 1 Disneyland Resort1.1 Restaurants1.2 Bars2 Disneyland Resort Paris3 Hong Kong Disneyland Resort4 Future designs Disneyland Resort Disneyland Resor..
Disneyland Monorail System
Disneyland Park Attractions 50th Anniversary Main Street, U.S.A. Disneyland RailroadMain Street CinemaGreat Moments with Mr. Lincoln[[Disneyland: The First 50 Magical Years]]Main Street Vehicles Fire EngineHorse-Drawn StreetcarsHorseless CarriageOmnibus Fantasyland Alice in WonderlandCasey ..
Disneyland Park
The term Disneyland Park can be used to describe, and/or is the correct name for all of the following theme parks owned by The Walt Disney Company; Disneyland in Anaheim, California, USADisneyland Paris in Marne-la-Vallee, FranceTokyo Disneyland in Chiba, JapanHong Kong Disneyland in Penny's Bay, La..
Disneyland Park: The Official Album (2001 CD)
Disneyland Park: The Official Album (2001 CD) was the official album released for Disneyland in 2001. Track listing "All Aboard!" - Main Street Station – 0:32"Flitterin'" - Main Street – 1:45"The Tiki, Tiki, Tiki Room" - The Enchanted Tiki Room – 2:38"The Indiana Jones Adventure" - Templ..
Disneyland Park (Paris)
Disney theme park Le chateau de la belle au bois dormant is the icon of Disneyland Park Disneyland Park Location Marne-la-Vallee, France Opening Day April 12, 1992 Resort Disneyland Resort Paris Theme Magic Kingdom Website [Disneyland Resort Paris Homepage] Operator..
Disneyland Railroad
Disneyland Park Attractions 50th Anniversary Main Street, U.S.A. Disneyland RailroadMain Street CinemaGreat Moments with Mr. Lincoln[[Disneyland: The First 50 Magical Years]]Main Street Vehicles Fire EngineHorse-Drawn StreetcarsHorseless CarriageOmnibus Fantasyland Alice in WonderlandCasey..
Disneyland Resort
This article is about the Disneyland Resort in California. For other Disney parks and attractions, see . Disneyland Resort 50th Anniversary Disneyland park Disney's California Adventure park Downtown Disney Disneyland Hotel Disney's Paradise Pier Hotel Disney's Grand Californian Hotel ..
Disneyland Resort (MTR)
Disneyland Resort (迪士尼站) is a station on the Hong Kong MTR . It has been built to serve the new Hong Kong Disneyland Resort, and is located in Penny's Bay. The station is designed in a Victorian style, with spacious open areas. It has also been designed with a Disney theme in mind to matc..
Disneyland Resort Line (MTR)
This is the complete route map of the Disneyland Resort Line. Note that interchange stations are not denoted. The Disneyland Resort Line (迪士尼綫) is an MTR line connecting Yam O to the Hong Kong Disneyland Resort. It is the MTR's seventh line, and the world's first metro line designed t..
Disneyland Resort Paris
Disneyland Resort Paris is a holiday and recreation resort in Marne-la-Vallée, in the suburbs of Paris, France, featuring two Disney theme parks, Disneyland Park and Walt Disney Studios Park. With 12.4 million visitors in 2004 ORTIF - ["Chiffres clés du tourisme 2004 en Île-de-France", pa..
DisneyMania
DisneyMania is a series of albums released by Walt Disney Records featuring various musical artists performing Disney songs. Contents 1 Albums1.1 DisneyMania Vol. 11.2 DisneyMania Vol. 21.3 DisneyMania Vol. 31.4 DisneyRemixMania1.5 DisneyMania Vol. 42 External..
Disneymania 3
Disneymania 3 is the third installment in the popular CD series released by Walt Disney Records, where popular musicians from today put their spin on Disney classics. Track Listing Under The Sea - Raven-SymoneHawaiian Roller Coaster Ride - Jump5A Whole New World - Jessica SimpsonIt's A Small World..
DisneyQuest
DisneyQuest is an "indoor interactive theme park" located in Downtown Disney at the Walt Disney World Resort. It is housed in a five-story windowless building; guests enter the first-floor lobby and are brought via elevator to the third floor atrium as the start of their adventure. DisneyQuest con..
DisneySpeak
At The Walt Disney Company, there is a work philosophy that puts a Disney ideal into a terminology that is used in everyday speech. This Disney "corporate lingo" is used to create a level of product branding which carries over into a corporate mindset. The idea is that everyone who is working for Di..
DisneyToon Studios
DisneyToon Studios is an animation studio and a division of Walt Disney Feature Animation. It produces primarily sequels to Disney animated features (The Lion King 1½, [[Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch]]), Winnie-the-Pooh films (Pooh's Heffalump Movie), and Mickey Mouse films ([[Mickey, Donal..
DisneyWar
DisneyWar is an exposé of Michael Eisner's twenty year tenure at the The Walt Disney Company by James B. Stewart. The book chronicles the careers and interactions of executives at Disney, including Michael Eisner, Roy E. Disney, Frank Wells, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Michael Ovitz, and Robert Iger. ..
Disney (disambiguation)
Disney may refer to: The Walt Disney Company and its divisions*Walt Disney Pictures, a United States–based movie studio*Walt Disney Feature Animation, the animation studio*Disney Channel is a cable TV network*Walt Disney Theatrical, the stageplay and musical production arm*Walt Disney Televisi..
Disney Adventures
The first issue of Disney Adventures, which featured an interview with Rick Moranis. Disney Adventures is a children's entertainment and educational magazine published ten times per year by The Walt Disney Company. Contents 1 History2 ''Disney Adventures'' today3 International..
Disney animated feature film source material
This is a list of source material for Disney animated features in the official canon (Walt Disney Animated Classics). Contents 1 Adapted from books or book series2 Adapted from folk tales, fairy tales or legends3 Original4 Combination5 See also6 External link Adapte..
Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life
Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life (ISBN 0786860707), 1981, is an acclaimed book by two of Disney's The Nine Old Men, Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas. It is widely considered to be one of the best books ever published on the topic of character animation. Totalling 576 pages, a revised edition,..
Disney animators' strike
The bitter animators' strike of 1941 at Walt Disney Studios was a psychological turning point within the company. It had relatively little effect on Walt Disney's reputation with the public, but damaged his standing with left-leaning intellectuals who had heralded "jazz and the animated cartoon" as ..
Disney anthology television series
The first incarnation of the Disney anthology television series, commonly called The Wonderful World of Disney, premiered on ABC on October 27, 1954 under the name Disneyland. Contents 1 Overview2 Format3 Theme music4 Dates of network affiliation, show titles, and time slots5..
Disney Auctions
Disney Auctions was created in October of 2000 with a partnership between The Walt Disney Company and eBay. Items like signs and ride vehicles from Disneyland and Walt Disney World are commonly sold as well as costume pieces and props from previously released movies from Walt Disney Studios. ..
Disney A to Z
Cover of second edition of Disney A to Z Disney A to Z: The Official Encyclopedia is the official encyclopedia of The Walt Disney Company. It is written by Disney's head archivist, Dave Smith. Editions 1996: published by Hyperion, ISBN 07868814961998: Disney A to Z: The Updated Official Encyc..
Disney Channel
Disney Channel is a cable television network run by The Walt Disney Company. Disney Channel features family-oriented programming, much of it aimed at children of all ages. There is a morning programming block for younger viewers called Playhouse Disney. Launched as a commercial-free premium channe..
Disney Channel's Play by Play
Disney Channel's Play by Play is a commercial that Disney Channel does. It takes scenes from TV shows and turn them into entertaining things such as Scream Off, or Talking to a Cute Boy. There are also diffculty levels, such as "Talking to a Cute Boy is level 9, and Scream off is level 10. So far, t..
Disney Channel's So Hot Summer!
Contents 1 Info2 Internal Links2.1 Disney Channel Games2.2 20052.3 2006 Info So Hot Summer! is a summer block that is on Disney Channel. It shows all new episodes and movies. On [the So Hot Summer Website], you can view the player's profiles. Internal Links Mor..
Disney Channel's So Hot Summer! 2005
Contents 1 Info2 Click it to Pick it! Episode Winners3 Mystery Challenge Characters Winners4 References5 Internal Links Info So Hot Summer was a block that Disney Channel ran over the summer. It mainly aired on Saturdays in place of the normal movie. It consisted of two s..
Disney Channel's So Hot Summer! 2006
This is the 2nd time Disney Channel has a So Hot Summer. Contents 1 Info2 Click It to Pick It! Movies3 Disney Channel Games 20064 New Games5 New Episodes6 Videos7 Extras8 Internal Link9 External Link(s) Info So Hot Summer was a block that Disney Chann..
Disney Channel (UK)
Disney Channel is a British television channel. It was originally planned to launch in 1989, but due to an apparent dispute the launch was cancelled, and did not air until October 1 1995. Disney Channel is also available in the Republic of Ireland. Unlike its American counterpart, it airs with adv..
Disney Channel Around the World
Contents 1 United Kingdom2 Africa and Asia3 Australia & New Zealand4 Scandinavia5 Latin America and the Caribbean6 Other versions7 Reference8 External links United Kingdom (also available in the Republic of Ireland) A British version of the Disney Channe..
Disney Channel Games
The Disney Channel Games is part of Disney Channel's So Hot Summer!. Links Disney Channel Games 2006 (this spot saved for possibly upcoming Disney Channel Games 2007)Note to Wikipedians who is currently viewing this: If you hear news of Disney Channel Games 2007, please edit this page and add artic..
Disney Channel Games 2006
The Disney Channel Games are a weekly mini series on Disney Channel that began airing on Saturday June 10, 2006. The Suite Life of Zack and Cody's Brian Stepanek (Arwin) and Phill Lewis (Mr. Moseby) are the field hosts, and Kim Possible, Dr. Drakken, American Dragon: Jake Long, and Fu Dog are the st..
Disney Channel Hits: Take 1
right Disney Channel Hits: TAKE 1 is the first complete collection of hit songs and videos from the Disney Channel. CD includes songs from Disney's hit TV Shows Lizzie McGuire, That's So Raven, Even Stevens, Kim Possible and The Proud Family, plus six never before released tracks. Track list..
Disney Channel programs
A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z A Aladdin (Toon Disney - Scandinavia)[[American Dragon: Jake Long]] (Disney Channel - Scandinavia)Animal's World (Playhouse Disney - Scandinavia)B Boy Meets World (Disney ChannelBrandy and Mr. Whis..
Disney Channel Scandinavia
Disney Channel Scandinavia is an edition of the The Walt Disney Company-owned Disney Channel broadcasting to the Nordic countries. It is advertising-free and funded by subscribtion fees. History The Disney Channel was launched i February 2003 and was then exclusively available through the Viasat ..
Disney Cinemagic
Disney Cinemagic is the movie service for the Disney Channel in the UK. It launched on March 16th 2006, and replaced the British version of Toon Disney. It has a timeshift service called Disney Cinemagic +1 which as of 2006 is only available through Sky Digital. Disney Cinemagic is available on Sk..
Disney Comics