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3 unusual facts about DIA


Dia:Beacon

Dia:Beacon occupies a former Nabisco box-printing facility that was renovated by Dia with artist Robert Irwin and architects Alan Koch, Lyn Rice, Galia Solomonoff and Linda Taalman, then of OpenOffice.

Galia Solomonoff

Her notable projects include Dia:Beacon; the Defective Brick Project; multiple residential projects in Manhattan and Brooklyn; and competition proposals for institutional projects around the world.

Sakartvelos Gogona Skautebis Asociacia 'Dia'

Dia itself is an ancient Georgian feminine name, referring to the goddess associated in Georgian pre-Christian mythology with the planet Jupiter.


Aluizio Coelho

Em seguida, provou o carro F-3000 em Donington Park e se preparou para o grande dia de sua vida: em 12 de Novembro de 1998, no circuito de Silverstone, Aluizio teve a oportunidade de testar o carro da Williams, então atual campeã mundial.

April Fools' Day

Nevertheless, on the Spanish island of Minorca, "Dia d'enganyar" ("Fooling day") is celebrated on 1 April because Menorca was a British possession during part of the 18th century.

Bluespace

In June 2010, BlueSpace participated in the Coalition Warfighter Interoperability Demonstration (CWID) in partnership with the AWACS Netcentricity Program at Hanscom Air Force Base. DIA and JFCOM are also sponsoring BlueSpace's C2 technology in Empire Challenge 2010, a 'live fly' technology demonstrator based at Fort Huachuca.

Bom Dia

Bom Dia (Portuguese for Good Morning) is the first album of the Portuguese band Pluto.

Cada Día

Cada Día (Eng.: Each Day) is a song written by Stefan Olsdal (band member of Placebo) and David Amen, on Olsdal's side project Hotel Persona.

Camp Nama

By early 2004, one of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's top aides, Under-Secretary for Defense Intelligence Stephen A. Cambone, ordered a subordinate, DIA head Vice Adm. Lowell E. Jacoby to "get to the bottom" of any misconduct.

Cold cut

It is eaten the first and second day of the month to celebrate "El día de Todos los Santos" (All Saints' Day) and "El día de Todos los Difuntos" (All Souls' Day).

Def Con Dos

This situation changed when Basque film maker Álex de la Iglesia appointed them for the main themes in his films Acción mutante (Mutant Action, 1993) and El día de la bestia (The Day of the Beast, 1995).

Design and Industries Association

Shortly afterwards a meeting under the chairmanship of Lord Aberconway led to the foundation of the Design and Industries Association (DIA), with the express intention of raising the standard of British industrial design, under the slogan of "Fitness for Purpose".

Detroit Industry Murals

At its unveiling the panel so offended some members of Detroit's religious community that they demanded it be destroyed, but commissioner Edsel Ford and DIA Director Wilhelm Valentiner held firm, and it remains in place today.

Día a Día con Raymond y Dagmar

Día a Día con Raymond y Dagmar is a variety program at 2:00 pm on WKAQ-TV Telemundo Puerto Rico with Raymond Arrieta and Dagmar.

Dia Art Foundation

Others, including On Kawara, Bridget Riley, Robert Ryman, and Robert Whitman, presented existing work in focused installations that responded to Dia’s mandate and site.

Among the many artists who created site-specific exhibition projects for Dia are Robert Gober, Ann Hamilton, Jenny Holzer, Pierre Huyghe, Robert Irwin, Juan Muñoz, Jorge Pardo, Jessica Stockholder, Diana Thater, and Lawrence Weiner.

Dia Dia Dia

On 16 November 2013, Fatin sing "Dia Dia Dia" live for first time on Dahsyat.

DIA in popular culture

:*Need To Know - a DIA operative George Roca comes in conflict with investigators from NCIS, who are not let on a sensitive DIA operation.

:*Season 5 - involves a rogue DIA psychiatrist Anson Fullerton (Jere Burns), who turns out to be a murderer and a spy bent on blackmailing Michael Westen into doing his dirty work.

Diachronous

A diachronous (Greek dia, through + Chronos) deposit in Geology is a sedimentary rock formation in which apparently similar material varies in age from place to place.

Duo kie

In 1998 Locus released his first LP, “Un día más en la vida de un don nadie”, under his previous artistic name “Locus Amenus”.

Durban International Airport

No provision was made during the planning and construction of KSIA to accommodate the South African Air Force base at DIA, thus AFB Durban, 15 Squadron and related support units are still operating from this airport.

El Día

El Nuevo Día, a Puerto Rican newspaper that was originally called El Día

European Pharmaceutical Students' Association

In the year of 2009 EPSA organised for the first time this event in collaboration with DIA (Drug Information Association).

Fabé Dia

Amy Fabé Dia Longo (born 14 February 1977 in Creil, France) is a French-Italian sprint athlete who specializes in the 200 metres.

Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haïti

According to Constant, shortly after Aristide's ouster, Colonel Patrick Collins, a U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), attache who was stationed in Haiti from 1989 to 1992, pressured him to organize a front that could oppose the Aristide movement and do intelligence work against it.

George Trakas

Notable recent examples of his work include a waterfront nature walk at the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant in Brooklyn, New York; another waterfront installation adjacent to the Dia:Beacon museum in Beacon, New York; and public art in the New York City Subway at the Atlantic Avenue - Barclays Center station.

Hoje É o Primeiro Dia do Resto da Sua Vida

Hoje é o Primeiro Dia do Resto da Sua Vida (Portuguese for "today is the first day of the rest of your life") is the second solo record by Brazilian singer Rita Lee.

Juan Manuel García Passalacqua

"Juan Ma", as he was referred by some, participated in a televised program called Medio Día Puerto Rico (Midday Puerto Rico), during the lunchtime hours on Televicentro Puerto Rico in a segment called "La Escuelita" (The Small Schoolhouse).

La Secta AllStar

These were in turn substituted by the Spanglish version of "Bombón de Azúcar" and a new track titled "Luna de Día".

Lynne Cooke

In addition to her work at the Dia Center for the Arts, she has curated exhibitions at the Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol; Whitechapel Art Gallery and Hayward Gallery, London; Third Eye Center, Glasgow; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Tamayo Museum,

From 1979 to 1989, Cooke was a Lecturer in the History of Art Department at University College London, and prior to her move to the United States and appointment as curator at the Dia Art Foundation in 1991, Dr. Cooke established herself during the mid-80s as a writer on contemporary artists of the period, including British sculptors Anish Kapoor and Bill Woodrow, and American artist Allan McCollum.

Marcos Hummel

Before joining TV Record, Hummel worked for 21 years in Rede Globo's news report "Jornal Hoje", "Jornal Nacional", "Jornal da Globo", "Fantástico", "Globo Esporte", "Bom Dia Rio" and "Bom Dia São Paulo" and has served also as the publisher and editor.

Mi Día de la Independencia

Mi Día de la Independencia was the third album studio of the Mexican pop singer Lynda Thomas.

Mohamed Dia

In 2005, he also created his own record label, Dia entertainment, along with hip hop group Ärsenik.

Multishow ao Vivo: Vanessa da Mata

Multishow ao Vivo was recorded live at the historic town of Paraty, and brings in the repertoire songs that marked the career of da Mata, including "Não me Deixe So", "Ai, Ai, Ai", "Eu Sou Neguinha", and "Vermelho", in addition to the song "Acode" (composed by da Mata), remakes of "Um Dia, Um Adeus" (Guilherme Arantes), and "As Rosas Não Falam" (Cartola).

No Llores Por Mí

Only two albums achieved four number-one singles in the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks before: Amor Prohibido by Selena and Otro Día Más Sin Verte by Jon Secada.

Pancracio Celdrán

He is presently a contributor to No es un día cualquiera ("It's Not Just Another Day"), a weekend news magazine broadcast by Radio Nacional de España, and the resident linguistic consultant of El Semanal, the Sunday supplement published by the Grupo Vocento.

Prats-de-Mollo-la-Preste

There is a reference to this tradition in the Catalan author Joan-Lluís Lluís' novel El dia de l'ós (The Day of the Bear).

Ramon Martí Alsina

The Great Day of Girona or Girona's Great Day (El gran dia de Girona, completed by 1863-64)

Scheibenschlagen

Mals, Upper Vinschgau: Oh reim reim, wem weard eppar dia Scheib sein, dia Scheib und mei Kniascheib kearn dem Hanssmerl und der Seffa zur a guate Nocht, daß die Bettstatt krocht.

School Day of Non-violence and Peace

The School Day of Non-violence and Peace (or DENIP, acronym from Catalan-Balearic: Dia Escolar de la No-violència i la Pau), is an observance founded by the Spanish poet Llorenç Vidal Vidal in Majorca in 1964 as a starting point and support for a pacifying and non-violent education of a permanent character.

Teletica Canal 7

Main programming consists on local news show call Telenoticias, Buen Dia (morning show), Mexican and Colombian soap operas, US dubbed TV series, sports, Deportivo Saprissa soccer games and Costa Rica national football team friendly games.

The Lightning Field

Support towards the permanent preservation of the undeveloped grasslands surrounding the installation has in the past been provided by Dia's Board of Trustees, the State of New Mexico, De Maria's assistant Helen Winkler Fosdick, and Gucci.

Thomas P. Meek

For a six-month period in 1999 during the height of the Kosovo crisis, Meek was dispatched by DIA to serve as Defense Attaché in Tirana, Albania.

Virginia Romero

Her bulto of San Isidro is carried in procession each year on 15 May, the Día de San Isidro Labrador (the Day of Saint Isidore the Farmer), when the Bishop of Las Cruces performs the blessing of the fields at the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum.


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