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Dives, Oise Dives () is a commune in the Oise department in northern France. See also * Communes of the Oise department The following is a list of the 680 Communes of France, communes of the Oise Departments of France, department of France. The commun ...
, a French commune of the Oise département *
Dives (river) The Dives (; also ''Dive'') is a 105 km long river in the Pays d'Auge, Normandy, France. It flows into the English Channel in Cabourg. The source of the Dives is near Exmes, in the Orne department. The Dives flows generally north through t ...
, a river in Normandy *
Dives-sur-Mer Dives-sur-Mer (, literally ''Dives on Sea''; ) is a commune in the Calvados department in Normandy in northwestern France. History It was from the harbour of Dives-sur-Mer that William the Conqueror set out on the Norman Conquest of England i ...
, a commune in Normandy * ''Dives'' (bird), a genus of New World blackbirds *
Dis Pater Dis Pater (; ; genitive ''Ditis Patris''), otherwise known as Rex Infernus or Pluto, is a Roman god of the underworld. Dis was originally associated with fertile agricultural land and mineral wealth, and since those minerals came from undergrou ...
, Roman god of the underworld, contracted from ''Dives Pater'' ("Father of Riches") * Dives, 'the rich man' in the parable of the
rich man and Lazarus The rich man and Lazarus (also called the parable of Dives and Lazarus) is a parable of Jesus from the 16th chapter of the Gospel of Luke. Speaking to his disciples and some Pharisees, Jesus tells of an unnamed rich man and a beggar named Laz ...
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Chrysophylax Dives ''Farmer Giles of Ham'' is a comic medieval fable written by J. R. R. Tolkien in 1937 and published in 1949. The story describes the encounters between Farmer Giles and a wily dragon named Chrysophylax, and how Giles manages to use these to r ...
, "Goldward the Rich," the dragon in ''Farmer Giles of Ham'' *
Lewis Dives Sir Lewis Dyve (3 November 1599 – 1669) was an English Member of Parliament and a Cavalier, Royalist adherent during the English Civil War. His surname is sometimes also spelt Dive or Dives. Life Dyve was born on 3 November 1599.
, English Member of Parliament *
Mont de la Dives Mont de la Dives is the highest mountain in Amsterdam Island, French Southern and Antarctic Lands, Indian Ocean. Geography This high peak rises in the Plateau des Tourbières above the western shore of Amsterdam Island. The mountain has a cl ...
, mountain in Amsterdam Island, French Southern and Antarctic Lands *
SU Dives Sport Union Dives-Cabourg is a French association football club. They were founded in 1929 as Sport Union Divaise. They are based in the town of Dives-sur-Mer and their home stadium is the Stade André Heurtematte. In May 2016 they merged with n ...
, a French association football club founded in 1929


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