Ida
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Ida can mean the following:
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[edit] People
Ida is a female name derived from Old Norse ið, which means 'deed' or 'action':
- Ida of Bernicia (-559), King of a British state
- Ida (goddess), a goddess of Hinduism
- Saint Ita, an Irish nun
- Ida Rubinstein, a Russian ballet dancer
- Ida (band), an American indie rock band
- Ida, Countess of Boulogne, c. 1160-1216
[edit] IDA, the acronym
- IDA (drug store), a Canadian drug store
- Russian IDA71 military and naval rebreather, are makes of Russian frogman's rebreather
- In Defense of Animals, a non-profit organisation for animal rights activism
- Industrial Development Authority, of Ireland
- Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore
- Information Dispersal Algorithm
- Ingeniørforeningen i Danmark, known in English as the Danish Society of Engineers
- Institute for Defense Analyses
- The Interactive Disassembler, a popular disassembler tool for reverse engineering
- International Dark-Sky Association
- International Development Association
- Indiana Department of Aviation
- International Disability Alliance
[edit] Places
- Mount Ida, Arkansas, a city in Arkansas
- Ida County and its county seat Ida Grove, in Iowa
- Mount Ida, Crete, a mountain in Crete, inhabited by a nymph of the same name; sometimes called "Psiloritis"
- Mount Ida, a mountain in Phrygia, Turkey
- Plain of Ida, a fictional plain with Gladsheim and Vingolf in Norse mythology
- 243 Ida, an asteroid
- Ida River, a river in Slovakia
- Ida (restaurant), a restaurant and public sauna in Helsinki, Finland
[edit] Other
- Ida (yoga), a nadi in the subtle body
- Ida (Sword), an African type of sword
- Ida Galaxy, a fictional galaxy in the Stargate fictional universe, the home galaxy to the Asgard
- Ida (Middleverse), a soulless android from outer space masquerading as a librarian in the Middleverse
[edit] See also
- Itta, the wife of Pepin of Landen and mother of Saint Begga
