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Dix (other)
DIX or Dix may refer to: Computing * Danish Internet Exchange Point, in Copenhagen * Data Integrity Extensions, data corruption error-handling field in data storage technology * Device Independent X, part of the 2D graphics device driver in the X.Org Server * DIX Ethernet, an Ethernet frame type People Surname * Adrian Dix (born 1964), Canadian politician * Alan Dix, British author and university professor * Arnold Dix, Australian barrister and scientist * Bernard Dix (1925–1995), British trade unionist * Beulah Marie Dix (1876–1970), American screenwriter, playwright and novelist * Carl Dix (born 1948), American communist * De'Audra Dix (born 1984), American football player * Dorothea Dix (1802–1887), American social worker * Dorothy Dix (1861–1951), American journalist * Drew Dennis Dix (born 1944), US Army officer awarded the Medal of Honor * Eddie Dix (born 1970), Dutch baseball player * Edwin Asa Dix (1860–1911), AKA Edwin Augustus Dix, America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danish Internet Exchange Point
Danish Internet Exchange Point (DIX) is an internet exchange point operated by i2http://www.i2.dk/ in Kongens Lyngby north of Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. Two points of presence were opened since 2011. Its purpose is to alleviate the exchange of data traffic between networks that constitute the Danish part of the global Internet structure. The DIX was established in May 1994 and has most of the Danish Internet service providers connected. Technology The DIX offers several options to connect to the neutral net: * Switched 1 Gbit Gigabit Ethernet. The member must use a 1G-LX singlemode optical module. * Switched 10 Gbit 10 Gigabit Ethernet. The member must use a 10G-LR singlemode optical module. * Switched 40 Gbit 40 Gigabit Ethernet. * Switched 100 Gbit 100 Gigabit Ethernet. See also * List of Internet exchange points This is a list of Internet exchange points ( IXPs). There are several sources for IXP locations, including Packet Clearing House, who have maintained ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eulabee Dix
Eulabee Dix Becker (October 5, 1878 – June 14, 1961) was an American artist, who favoured the medium of watercolours on ivory to paint portrait miniatures. During the early 20th century, when the medium was at the height of fashion, she painted many prominent figures, including European nobility and famous actresses of the day. Early life Dix was born in Greenfield, Illinois, to Mary Bartholomew and Horace Wells Dix,Hirshorn, Anne Sue"The portrait miniatures of Eulabee Dix" ''Antiques'' (November 1, 1994). Accessed at Encyclopedia.com on 2008-01-03. She had an early interest in art, and her talents and love of reading were encouraged from an early age. Her family moved several times during her early years due to financial setbacks. During her teens, Dix went to live with wealthy family members in St. Louis, where she attended Washington University in St. Louis, and spent a year studying oil painting and life drawing at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts. Her work there wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morgan Dix
Morgan Dix (November 1, 1827 – April 29, 1908) was an American Episcopal Church priest, theologian, and religious author. Early life Dix was born on November 1, 1827, in New York City. He was the son of Catherine Morgan, the adopted daughter of Congressman John J. Morgan, and Major General John Adams Dix, U.S. Senator from New York (from 1845 to 1849), Secretary of the Treasury (from January–March 1861), Governor of New York (from 1873 to 1874) and Union major general during the Civil War. His father was notable for arresting six members of the pro-Southern Maryland legislature, preventing that divided border state from seceding, and for arranging a system for prisoner exchange via the Dix–Hill Cartel, concluded in partnership with Confederate Major General Daniel Harvey Hill. Dix was educated at Columbia College and the General Theological Seminary. Career For almost fifty-three years, he was identified with Trinity Church, New York, of which he became assistant mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michèle Dix
Michèle Dix CBE (born 5 February 1955) is a British civil engineer. She is the managing director of Crossrail 2 and had previously been the director of planning for Transport for London. In 2016, Dix was named as one of the Top 50 Influential Women in Engineering. Early life As Michèle Holland, she attended Cleethorpes Girls' Grammar School. Dix gained a degree in civil engineering from the University of Leeds before studying for a Doctor of Philosophy degree in transport and land use planning at the university's Institute for Transport Studies which she was awarded in 1982. Career She worked for the Greater London Council for six years as a traffic planner developing traffic policies and planning new road schemes. She became a chartered engineer through the council's graduate development scheme. Dix subsequently joined engineering consultancy Halcrow Fox and became their board director for urban transport planning. She is a fellow of the Institution of Civil Engin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret A
Margaret is a feminine given name, which means "pearl". It is of Latin origin, via Ancient Greek and ultimately from Old Iranian. It has been an English name since the 11th century, and remained popular throughout the Middle Ages. It became less popular between the 16th and 18th century, but became more common again after this period, becoming the second-most popular female name in the United States in 1903. Since this time, it has become less common, but was still the ninth-most common name for women of all ages in the United States as of the 1990 census. Margaret has many diminutive forms in many languages, including Daisy, Greta, Gretchen, Maggie, Madge, Maisie, Marge, Margie, Margo, Margot, Marnie, Meg, Megan, Molly, Peggy, and Rita. Etymology Margaret is derived via French () and Latin () from (), via Persian ''murwārīd'', meaning "pearl". Margarita (given name) traces the etymology further as مروارید, ''morvārīd'' in modern Persian, derived fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Dix
Margaret Ruth Dix (1902 – 9 December 1991) was a British neuro-otologist. With Charles Skinner Hallpike, she published important research on vertigo and described the Dix–Hallpike test. Biography Dix was born in 1902 and attended Sherborne School for Girls. She studied medicine at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, earning her MBBS in 1937. She then began training as a surgeon, but in 1940 she was injured in an air-raid during the Blitz that left her with a facial disfigurement and pieces of glass in her eyes, forcing her to give up her surgical career. Dix joined the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery as a Medical Research Council researcher in 1945, studying deafness in ex-servicemen. She was hired by Charles Skinner Hallpike, who encouraged her to pursue a career in neuro-otology, the study of the inner ear. Dix and Hallpike published a landmark series in 1952 in the ''Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine'' and the '' Annals of Otolog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ross Dix
John Dix or John Ross (21 September 1811 – after 1863) was an English writer and poet in Great Britain and America. An alcoholic, he wrote a noted biography of Thomas Chatterton and he wrote "In Our Own Dear Homes Again" during the American Civil War. Biography Dix was born in Bristol. He said that his mother was taught by Chatterton's sister - Mary Newton. Dix took to poetry writing about sites in Bristol which were published in the ''Bristol Mirror'' and later included in an anthology titled "Lays of Home". In 1832 he married Sussanah Moore whose father boiled soap at Bedminster. They started a business in Wellington in Somerset, but this soon failed. He had three children, two born in Somerset, and a son born in Bristol in 1837. The son was named William Chatterton Dix in honour of his latest publication which was a ''Life of Thomas Chatterton''. The book contained not only a biography but many of Chatterton's poems. This book contained some of Chatterton's unpublished ear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Adams Dix
John Adams Dix (July 24, 1798 – April 21, 1879) was an American politician and military officer who was Secretary of the Treasury, Governor of New York and Union major general during the Civil War. He was notable for arresting the pro-Southern Maryland General Assembly, preventing that divided border state from seceding, and for arranging a system for prisoner exchange via the Dix–Hill Cartel, concluded in partnership with Confederate Major General Daniel Harvey Hill. Biography Dix was born in Boscawen, New Hampshire on July 24, 1798, the son of Timothy Dix and Abigail Wilkins, and brother of composer Marion Dix Sullivan. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, and joined the US Army as an ensign in May 1813, serving under his father until the latter's death a few months later. He attained the rank of captain in August 1825 and resigned from the Army in December 1828. In 1826, Dix married Catherine Morgan, the adopted daughter of Congressman John J. Morgan, who gav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Alden Dix
John Alden Dix (December 25, 1860 – April 9, 1928) was an American businessman and politician who served as 38th governor of New York from January 1911 to January 1913. A native of Glens Falls, New York, Dix attended Cornell University before becoming active in several Dix family business ventures. He later expanded into the lumber and paper industries, where his success made him wealthy. Dix became active in politics as a democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, and served terms as chairman of the Washington County, New York, Washington County Democratic Committee and the New York State Democratic Committee. New York state election, 1908, In 1908, Dix was an unsuccessful candidate for Lieutenant Governor of New York. In 1910, Dix was the successful Democratic nominee for governor, and he served one two-year term, January 1911 to December 1912. His term was largely concerned with issues of workplace safety in the wake of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Dix
Joan Dix (later ''Jones'', 3 August 1918 – 1991) was an English figure skater who competed in ladies singles. In 1932 she finished tenth at the Winter Olympics and world championships, and seventh at the European championships A European Championship is the top level international sports competition between European athletes or sports teams representing their respective countries or professional sports clubs. In the plural, the European Championships also refers t .... Her father Fred Dix was an Olympic speed skater. References 1918 births 1991 deaths Olympic figure skaters for Great Britain Figure skaters at the 1932 Winter Olympics People from Raunds British female single skaters {{UK-figure-skating-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Dix
Jan, JaN or JAN may refer to: Acronyms * Jackson, Mississippi (Amtrak station), US, Amtrak station code JAN * Jackson-Evers International Airport, Mississippi, US, IATA code * Jabhat al-Nusra (JaN), a Syrian militant group * Japanese Article Number, a barcode standard compatible with EAN * Japanese Accepted Name, a Japanese nonproprietary drug name * Job Accommodation Network, US, for people with disabilities * ''Joint Army-Navy'', US standards for electronic color codes, etc. * ''Journal of Advanced Nursing'' Personal name * Jan (name), male variant of ''John'', female shortened form of ''Janet'' and ''Janice'' * Jan (Persian name), Persian word meaning 'life', 'soul', 'dear'; also used as a name * Ran (surname), romanized from Mandarin as Jan in Wade–Giles * Ján, Slovak name Other uses * January, as an abbreviation for the first month of the year in the Gregorian calendar * Jan (cards), a term in some card games when a player loses without taking any tricks or scoring a m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helena Dix
Helena Dix (born 26 May 1979) is an Australian operatic soprano and specialist in bel canto roles. In 2005 Dix represented Australia in BBC Cardiff Singer of the World. She was awarded as an associate of The Royal Academy of Music in 2015 for her significant contribution to the music industry. Early life and education Dix was born in Melbourne, Australia. She attended Caulfield Grammar School and gained a scholarship to Melba Memorial Conservatorium of Music, where she studied with her first teacher Margaret Nisbett OBE. She went on to do a postgraduate diploma in opera at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she held an ABRSM scholarship and studied with Elizabeth Ritchie. Career Dix's operatic repertoire includes the title role in ''Cristina Regina di Svezia'' for Wexford Festival Opera, Oldenburgisches Staatstheater and Chelsea Opera Group. Elettra in ''Idomeneo'' and Odabella in ''Attila'' for Staatstheatrer Nurnberg and Theatre Lubreck. Gioconda in '' La Gi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
