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INDEX SEARCH RESULTS FOR: DIAS
 Dias, Bartolomeu - Cape of Good Hope
Diaspora - from the 6th century BC
- the first community in Babylon
- and the synagogue
- first use of the term in Alexandria
Díaz, Porfirio
dice - in use by 2000 BC
 Dick, Reid - and Lady Godiva
Dick Barton
Dickens, Charles
 - and Richmond upon Thames
dictator - in Roman republic
Dictatorship of the Proletariat - in Marxism
dictionary - earliest known
Dictionary - by Samuel Johnson
- brief biography
Diderot, Denis - and the Encyclopédie
didgeridoo - Australian musical instrument
Dido - founder of Carthage
Dido and Aeneas - opera by Purcell
- brief account
Diego, Juan - and the Virgin of Guadalupe
Diégo-Suarez - taken by French in 1883
diet - council of German empire
- of Hanseatic towns
diethylstilboestrol (DES) - causes vaginal cancer
Dietrich, Marlene - Lili Marlene
Dietrich von Bern - in German literature
digambara - in Jainism
Digby family - at Sherborne Castle
Digesta - of AD 533
Diggers - in 17th-century England
digitalis - in traditional medicine
- and William Withering
- foxglove tea
digits - in decimal system
Dijon - and Claus Sluter
Dilke, Charles
Dillon, John - succeeds John Redmond
Dimbleby, Richard
Dimitri - son of Ivan IV
Dimitris - false
Dimitri Donskoi - victory in 1380
dinar - first coined in Damascus
Dingaan - and Shaka
- and Piet Retief
dinner (meanings in English)
dinosaurs
Diocletian
- and persecution of Christians
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