According to Magieduruge Ibrahim Didi, a learned man from Fua Mulaku, it was merely the name which the converted Maldivians used to refer to their infidel ( ghair dīn = ' redin ') ancestors after the general conversion from Buddhism to Islam.

Maldives remained a British crown protectorate until 1953 when the sultanate was suspended and the First Republic was declared under the short-lived presidency of Muhammad Amin Didi.

While serving as prime minister during the 1940s, Didi nationalized the fish export industry.

Muslim conservatives in Malé eventually ousted his government, and during a riot over food shortages, Didi was beaten by a mob and died on a nearby island.

But Nasir, who was theoretically responsible to then sultan Muhammad Farid Didi, was challenged in 1959 by a local secessionist movement in the southern atolls that benefited economically from the British presence on Gan.

Titles of games were translated into Portuguese, sometimes creating a new story, like Pick-axe Pete, that became Didi na Mina Encantada ( Didi in the Enchanted Mine ) referring to the Renato Aragão's comedy character, and was one of the most famous Odyssey games in Brazil.

Mercier once questioned Beckett on the language used by the pair: " It seemed to me ... he made Didi and Gogo sound as if they had earned PhDs.

It has been contended that " Pozzo and Lucky are simply Didi and Gogo writ large ", unbalanced as their relationship is.

In his 1975 Schiller-Theatre production there are times when Didi and Gogo appear to bounce off something " like birds trapped in the strands of invisible net ", in James Knowlson's description.

Didi and Gogo are only trapped because they still cling to the concept that freedom is possible ; freedom is a state of mind, so is imprisonment.

" Bernard Dukore develops a triadic theory in Didi, Gogo and the absent Godot, based on Sigmund Freud's trinitarian description of the psyche in The Ego and the Id ( 1923 ) and the usage of onomastic techniques.

Just after Didi and Gogo have been particularly selfish and callous, the boy comes to say that Godot is not coming.

The French aviator and writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry made a reference, in a letter written to his sister Didi from Cape Juby in 1918, to his raising a fennec that he adored.

He was one of the most famous performers at Bruno Coquatrix's famous Paris Olympia music hall, and toured with musicians including Didi Duprat.

" Didi is shown going to work at Yucaipa High School.

For the 1954 FIFA World Cup in Switzerland, the Brazilian team was then almost completely renovated, so as to forget the Maracanã defeat, but still had a group of good players, including Nílton Santos, Djalma Santos, and Didi.

Before the match, the leaders of the team, Bellini, Nílton Santos, and Didi, spoke to coach Vicente Feola and persuaded him to make three substitutions which were crucial for Brazil to defeat the Soviets and win the Cup: Zito, Garrincha, and Pelé would start playing against the USSR.

Because of this, Didi was sometimes said to be the real coach of the team, as he commanded the midfield.

A controversy arose in January 2009 over a Georgian Public Broadcaster ( GPB ) television program, Sakartvelos Didi Ateuli ( საქართველოს დიდი ათეული ; " Best Georgians " or " Great Ten Georgians ") — a show which invited viewers to pick Georgia's top historical personages through polling by telephone, text messaging, and the Internet.

On January 16, the regular airing of Didi Ateuli was replaced by a debate between church representatives, their supporters, and opponents of the church's position.

On January 22, GPB announced that Didi Ateuli would proceed, with both saints and secular figures retained in the competition, but that the final list of ten would not be ranked but would be announced in alphabetical order.

After a record executive overhears " Didi " ( a mortal incarnation of Death ) and Sexton complimenting Foxglove's performance, she is given a shot at a record contract.

Among the early projects on which Pei took the lead were the L ' Enfant Plaza Hotel in Washington, DC and the Green Building at MIT.

Pei wanted the open spaces and buildings of L ' Enfant Plaza to be " functionally and visually related " to one another.

Pei and his team also designed a united urban area for Washington, D. C., L ' Enfant Plaza ( named for French-American architect Pierre Charles L ' Enfant ).

* William L. Slayton House designed by I. M. Pei, completed in the Cleveland Park neighborhood of Washington, D. C.

Architect I. M. Pei developed the initial urban renewal plan and was responsible for the design of multiple buildings, including those comprising L ’ Enfant Plaza and two clusters of apartment buildings located on the north side of M St. SW ( initial termed Town Center Plaza ).

Pei, the architect who designed the master plan and overall look of L ' Enfant Plaza.

Pei had initially proposed a large pedestrian bridge lined by retail businesses and restaurants extending from the L ' Enfant Promenade across Banneker Overlook and Interstate-395 down to Maine Avenue SW and the waterfront.

* Prognostics Enhanced Reconfigurable Control of Electro-Mechanical Actuators, D. Brown, G. Georgoulas, B. Bole, H. Pei, M. Orchard, L. Tang, B. Saha, A. Saxena, K. Goebel, and G. Vachtsevanos, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology.

* Pei Wei Asian Diner – throughout the United States ; a subsidiary of P. F.

Designed by I. M. Pei, the building is high with two masts reaching high.

Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect I. M. Pei, the building is high with two masts reaching high.

The Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity is housed in an 11-story structure originally built for The Christian Science Publishing Society constructed between 1932 and 1934, and the present plaza was constructed in the late 1960s and early 1970s to include a 28 story administration building, a colonnade, and a reflecting pool with fountain, designed by Araldo Cossutta of I. M. Pei and Partners ( now Pei Cobb Freed ).

Pei, Robert Venturi, Cesar Pelli, and Richard Meier have led to Columbus earning the nickname " Athens of the Prairie.

* Cleo Rogers Memorial Library, by I. M. Pei

However, other observers ( like Minxin Pei ) question whether these steps are genuine efforts towards democratic reform or disingenuous measures by the CPC to retain power.

Ieoh Ming Pei ( born April 26, 1917 ), commonly known as I. M. Pei, is a Chinese American architect, often called a master of modern architecture.

Born in Canton, China and raised in Hong Kong and Shanghai, Pei drew inspiration at an early age from the gardens at Suzhou.

* Pei Hsia, Chih-tung Hsu, David C. Kung.

Under the direction of the U. S. General Services Administration and the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation, architectural firm Pei Cobb Freed & Partners of New York, in association with D. C. architects Ellerbe Becket, were selected as the building architects in 1989.

Vaulted Space in the Ronald Reagan Building, Washington D. C., designed by I. M. Pei.

Pei, Ronald Reagan Building, Washington, D. C.

* I M Pei: Dallas City Hall, National Gallery East Wing, Washington, D. C .; Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland

Kelly has since executed many public commissions, including Wright Curve ( 1966 ), a steel sculpture designed for permanent installation in the Guggenheim ’ s Peter B. Lewis Theater ; a mural for the UNESCO headquarters in Paris in 1969 ; Curve XXII ( I Will ) at Lincoln Park in Chicago in 1981 ; a 1985 commission by I. M. Pei for the Raffles City building in Singapore ; the Houston Triptych, vertical bronze planes mounted on a tall concrete at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in 1986 ; Totem ( 1987 ), a sculpture for the Parc de la Creueta del Coll, Barcelona ; the Dallas Panels ( Blue Green Black Red ) ( 1989 ) for the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas ; a 1989 sculpture for the headquarters of Nestlé in Vevey, Switzerland ; Gaul ( 1993 ), a monumental sculpture commissioned by the Institute d ' Art Contemporain, Nîmes, France ; a two-part memorial for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D. C., in 1993 ; and large-scale Berlin panels for the Deutscher Bundestag, Berlin, in 1998.