Dora
Encyclopedia
Places
Australia- Lake Dora (Tasmania)Lake Dora (Tasmania)Lake Dora is a lake and also short-lived mining area of the late 1890s located in the West Coast Range of Western Tasmania. Located east of the Mount Tyndall area, it was the site of a transient gold-mining rush in the late 1890s. Lake Dora is not generally accessible by road, but only via trails...
- Lake Dora (Western Australia)
United States
- Dora, AlabamaDora, AlabamaDora is a city in Walker County, Alabama, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 2,413.-Geography:Dora is located at .According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land.-Demographics:...
- Dora, ArkansasDora, ArkansasDora is an unincorporated community in Crawford County in the western part of the U.S. state of Arkansas. It is located approximately 3 miles west of Van Buren on the Arkansas-Oklahoma border along Interstate 40. Dora shares its ZIP code and other municipal services with Van Buren.The community...
- Dora, MissouriDora, MissouriDora is an unincorporated community in northeastern Ozark County, Missouri. A school, post office, a couple of businesses, five churches and several homes are located there. The Dora Reorganized School District provides an education for approximately 360 students in grades 1-12...
- Dora, New MexicoDora, New MexicoDora is a village in Roosevelt County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 130 at the 2000 census.Former Texas Tech Red Raiders baseball coach Larry Hays attended school in Dora.-Geography:Dora is located at ....
Other countries
- Dora, BaghdadDora, BaghdadDora is a neighborhood in Al Rashid administrative district, southern Baghdad, Iraq. Although this was a majority Christian neighborhood, it became controlled by Sunni Muslim Extremists during the Iraq War...
, Iraq - Dora, CyprusDora, CyprusDora is a village in the Limassol District of Cyprus, located 6 km southwest of Malia....
- Dora, LebanonDora, LebanonDora is a suburb north of Beirut in the Matn District of Mount Lebanon Governorate. The suburb has commercial and residential zones.Dora is administered by Bourj Hammoud municipality.-Demographic:...
- DorasanDorasanDorasan or Mount Dora is a 156-metre hill on the south bank of the Imjin River in northernmost Paju, South Korea. It lies very near the Korean Demilitarized Zone. The hill gives its name to several nearby landmarks, including Dorasan Station and the Mt...
or Mount Dora, a hill in South Korea - Dora, Ancient Greek and Roman name for a former town; see Tel Dor, an archaeological site
Fiction
- Dora, fictional character in the webcomic ErfworldErfworldErfworld is a story-driven fantasy/comedy webcomic about a master strategy gamer stuck in a wargame. The first book, The Battle for Gobwin Knob was written by Rob Balder and illustrated by Jamie Noguchi. It was recognized as one of the top 10 graphic novels of 2007 by Time Magazine. The second...
- Dora Bianchi, fictional character in the webcomic Questionable ContentQuestionable ContentQuestionable Content is a slice-of-life webcomic written and drawn by Jeph Jacques. It was launched on August 1, 2003. Jacques currently makes his living exclusively from QC merchandising and advertising, making him one of the few professional webcomic artists...
- DoraemonDoraemonis a Japanese manga series created by Fujiko F. Fujio which later became an anime series and an Asian franchise...
, Japanese anime and manga - Dora the ExplorerDora the ExplorerDora the Explorer is an American animated television series created by Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh, and Eric Weiner. Dora the Explorer became a regular series in 2000. The show is carried on the Nickelodeon cable television network, including the associated Nick Jr. channel. It aired on CBS until...
, American television program aimed at young children - Nymphadora Tonks, fictional character in the Harry Potter universe
- Dora, one of Lazarus LongLazarus LongLazarus Long is a fictional character featured in a number of science fiction novels by Robert A. Heinlein. Born in 1912 in the third generation of a selective breeding experiment run by the Ira Howard Foundation, Lazarus becomes unusually long-lived, living well over two thousand years with the...
's primary spacecraft, and her sentient integral computer, in various interrelated novels by science fiction author Robert A. Heinlein - Dora Spenlow, fictional character in David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
War
- Defence of the Realm Act 1914Defence of the Realm Act 1914The Defence of the Realm Act was passed in the United Kingdom on 8 August 1914, during the early weeks of World War I. It gave the government wide-ranging powers during the war period, such as the power to requisition buildings or land needed for the war effort, or to make regulations creating...
(DORA), British war legislation adopted in August 1914 - Dora (artillery), 80cm German railway artillery pieces
- DORA 1DORA 1Dora 1 is a former German submarine base and bunker built during World War II in Trondheim, Norway. Trondheim was traditionally referred to as Drontheim in German, and the name DORA is the letter "D" in the German phonetic alphabet.-Backgound:...
and DORA 2, German U-boat bases in Trondheim, Norway - Fw 190 D "Dora", model of Focke-Wulf Fw 190Focke-Wulf Fw 190The Focke-Wulf Fw 190 Würger was a German Second World War single-seat, single-engine fighter aircraft designed by Kurt Tank in the late 1930s. Powered by a radial engine, the 190 had ample power and was able to lift larger loads than its well-known counterpart, the Messerschmitt Bf 109...
German fighter aircraft - Mittelbau-DoraMittelbau-DoraMittelbau-Dora was a Nazi Germany labour camp that provided workers for the Mittelwerk V-2 rocket factory in the Kohnstein, situated near Nordhausen, Germany....
, World War II concentration camp - Dora, code name of World War II Soviet intelligence agent Alexander RadoAlexander RadoAlexander Radó, born as Sándor Radó and also known as Alexander Radolfi , was a Hungarian cartographer and a Soviet military intelligence agent in World War II.-Life:...
Other uses
- Dora (grape), another name for the Italian wine grape Fortana
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, main belt asteroid - "Dora", 1984 song by Ambitious LoversAmbitious LoversAmbitious Lovers were a musical group composed of guitarist/singer Arto Lindsay and keyboardist Peter Scherer, active from the mid 1980s to the early '90s....
from the album Envy - Dora (case study) of Sigmund Freud, described in A Case of Hysteria
- Dora Mavor Moore AwardDora Mavor Moore AwardThe Dora Mavor Moore Award is an award presented annually by the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts which honours theatre, dance, and opera productions in Toronto. Named after Dora Mavor Moore, who helped establish Canadian professional theatre, the award was established on December 13, 1978...
for Canadian professional theatre - EV-DO Revision A standard, abbreviated DOrA
- HRT Dora, Croatian music festival and preselection venue for the Eurovision Song Contest
- Hurricane DoraHurricane DoraHurricane Dora was the first tropical cyclone on record to make landfall over the extreme northeast coast of Florida. Dora was also the first storm to produce hurricane force winds to Jacksonville, Florida in the almost 80 years of record keeping. Dora killed five people and left over...
, 1964 hurricane which was the first and last to hit Jacksonville, Florida - Tropical Storm Dora (disambiguation), various storms in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans
- In computer networking, DORA is an acronym used to describe the Discover, Offer, Request, Acknowledge process in the DHCP protocol
- Dora, a designated bonus tile used in Japanese Mahjong
- Titular diocese of DoraTitular diocese of DoraThe Titular diocese of Dora of Palestina Prima had united the priorate of the four military orders of Santiago, Alcántara, Calatrava and Montesa in the city of Ciudad Real...
- Dumb DoraDumb DoraA dumb Dora is considered to be 1920s American slang for a completely idiotic woman.The phrase was made popular from the vaudeville acts of George Burns and Gracie Allen ; eventually becoming a name of a classic comic strip by King Features Syndicate...
, a slang term from the 1920s meaning idiotic woman
See also
- DoraliceDoraliceDoralice is an American female first name. It is often truncated to Dora or Alice in English.*Doralice in Orlando furioso, by Ludovico Ariosto, who seems to have created the name...
- Dorothea (disambiguation)
- Theodora (disambiguation)