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Dori Carter
Dori may refer to: Places * Dori, Burkina Faso, a city ** Dori Department ** Roman Catholic Diocese of Dori ** Dori Airport * Dori River, in Afghanistan and Pakistan * Dori, Dharwad, India, a village People Given name, nickname or stage name * Dori of Yejju (died 1831), a chief of one of the tribes of the Oromo people in Ethiopia * Dori Arad (born 1982), Israeli footballer * Dori Caymmi (born 1943), Brazilian singer, guitarist, songwriter, arranger and producer * Dori Dorika (1913–1996), Russian-born Italian actress born Dorotea Massa * Izidor Kürschner (ca. 1885-1940), Hungarian footballer * Dori J. Maynard (born 1958), President of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education in Oakland, California * Dori Monson (born 1961), American radio personality * Dorielton Gomes Nascimento (born 1990), Brazilian footballer * Teodora Ruano (born 1969), Spanish retired racing cyclist * Dori Seda (1951-1988), artist * Dori Sanders (born 1934), African-American novelist and f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dori, Burkina Faso
Dori (also known as Winde or Wendu) is a town in northeastern Burkina Faso, near the border of Niger. It is located at around . It is the capital of Sahel Region and has a population of 46,512 (2019). The main ethnic group is the Fula (Fulani) but Tuaregs, Songhai, and Hausa people are often present. It is a town known for its herders and popular livestock markets. Dori recorded a temperature of in 1984, which is the highest temperature to have ever been recorded in Burkina Faso. Mines In 2004, a proposal surfaced to link the manganese mines by rail with the seaports of Ghana. Notable people * Roukiatou Maiga, humanitarian * Albert Ouédraogo, former Burkinabé Prime Minister See also * Railway stations in Burkina Faso Gallery File:ASC Leiden - van Achterberg Collection - 5 - 050 - Le vieux quartier de Dori avec ses habitants - Dori, Séno, Burkina Faso, 19-26 août 2001.tif, The old district of Dori with its inhabitants, 2001 File:ASC Leiden - van Achterberg Collect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dori Sanders
Dorinda "Dori" Sanders (born 1934, York County, South Carolina) is an African-American novelist, food writer and farmer. Her first novel, ''Clover'' (1990), was a bestseller, and won a 1990 Lillian Smith Book Award. She has also written a cookbook, ''Dori Sanders' Country Cooking'', that mixes recipes and anecdotes. The eighth of 10 children, Sanders is a fourth-generation farmer. She cultivates peaches and vegetables with her brother, on Sanders Peach Farm and Roadside Market, located in Filbert, South Carolina. In the video created to celebrate her 2011 Craig Claiborne Lifetime Achievement Award from the Southern Foodways Alliance Southern Foodways Alliance (SFA) is an institute of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, dedicated to the documentation, study and exploration of the foodways of the American South. Member-funded, it stage ..., Sanders tells how her father, a rural school teacher, purchased the land in approximately 1915 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorie (other) , a list of people with the surname
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Dorie may refer to: *Pierre-Henri Dorie (1839–1866), French missionary and martyr in Korea *Dorie Greenspan, American author of cookbooks *Dorie Murrey (born 1943), American retired National Basketball Association player *Doris Miller (1919-1943), nicknamed "Dorie", African-American US Navy cook who distinguished himself during the attack on Pearl Harbor See also *Dory (other) *Dorrie, name *Dorries Dorries or Dörries are names. Notable people with the name include: * Dorries Dlakude, South African Member of Parliament * Jana Dörries (born 1975), German former swimmer * Josef Dörries (1923–2007), German World War II and post-war soldier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dory (other)
A dory is a small, shallow-draft boat. Dory may also refer to: People * Dory Chamoun (born 1931), Lebanese politician * Charles Dory Dean (1852-1935), Major League Baseball pitcher * Dorrel Dory Dixon (born 1935), Jamaican retired professional wrestler * Dorrance Dory Funk (1919-1973), professional wrestler * Dorrance Dory Funk, Jr. Dorrance Earnest Funk (born February 3, 1941), known professionally as Dory Funk Jr., is an American retired professional wrestler and wrestling trainer. The son of Dory Funk (Dorrance Wilhelm Funk) and brother of Terry Funk, he was the promote ... (born 1941), professional wrestler and trainer, son of Dory Funk * Dory Lobel (born 1980), American musician, songwriter, composer and producer * Dory Previn (1925-2012), American lyricist, singer, songwriter and poet * Dorry Segev, Israeli-born Marjory K. and Thomas Pozefsky Professor of Surgery at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Professor of Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genshin Impact
''Genshin Impact'' is an action role-playing game developed and published by miHoYo. It was released for Android (operating system), Android, iOS, PlayStation 4, and Windows in 2020, on PlayStation 5 in 2021, and is set for release on Nintendo Switch. The game features an anime-style open world, open-world environment and an action-based Role-playing battle systems, battle system using elemental magic (game terminology), magic and character-switching. The game is free-to-play and is video game monetization, monetized through gacha game mechanics through which players can obtain new characters and weapons. The base game is expanded regularly through patches using the games as a service model. ''Genshin Impact'' takes place in the fantasy world of Teyvat, home to seven nations, each of which is tied to a different element and ruled by a different god. The story follows the Traveler, who has traveled across countless worlds with their twin sibling before becoming separated in Tey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scheisskopf
Scheisskopf (in English, "shithead") is a minor fictional character in the 1961 novel ''Catch-22'' by Joseph Heller, who is promoted through the ranks from Lieutenant to First Lieutenant, Colonel and finally to Lieutenant General. Lieutenant Scheisskopf is the title of Chapter Eight and General Scheisskopf is the title of Chapter Thirty-seven. Scheisskopf is a parade-obsessed ROTC graduate and training officer at the Air cadet base where Yossarian and Clevinger are trained before being sent overseas. Later Scheisskopf is himself transferred overseas to General Peckem’s command. Biographical summary Cadet training Scheisskopf is the training commander for Yossarian and Clevinger, and he takes a particular dislike to Clevinger. Even though Clevinger is just as serious for parades as Scheisskopf, and his ideas help the squadron win multiple parades, Scheisskopf still considers him a wise guy, and someone that needs to be brought down a peg or two. Eventually Clevinger is tried for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rainbow Girl
Rainbow Girl (Dori Aandraison of the planet Xolnar) is a fictional character and a DC Comics super heroine. She first appeared in ''Adventure Comics'' #309 (June 1963) as a rejected Legion of Super-Heroes applicant. Her second appearance was 25 years later in ''Who's Who in the Legion of Super-Heroes'' #5 as a socialite. She did not appear again for nearly 20 years until ''Action Comics'' #862 as a member of the Legion of Substitute Heroes, an organization of teenage heroes that exists one thousand years in a future universe. Fictional character biography Dori Aandraison hoped to become a Legionnaire as a stepping stone towards a career as a holovid actress. She won a trip to Metropolis where Legion tryouts were being held by using her powers in the "Miss Xolnar" contest. Unfortunately, the Legion rejected her. Rather than returning to Xolnar, she married Irveang Polamar, a member of one of the oldest and wealthiest families in Metropolis, so she could remain on Earth. Wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Utawarerumono Characters
This article lists the characters from the Japanese visual novel, anime and manga series ''Utawarerumono''. Main characters Hakuowlo : The protagonist of first game and its re-release ''Prelude to the Fallen''. Hakuowlo wears an irremovable half mask that covers his forehead and extends below his eyes. Eruruw, Aruruw and their grandmother find him, badly injured, in the forest near their home and nurse him back to health. It is soon apparent that he has lost all of his memories, and he finds that the state of the world varies significantly from his expectations (e.g. anatomical attributes such as ears and tails are now considered normal). Tuskur gives him, supposedly in place of his forgotten name, the name Hakuowlo (or Hakuoro) (meaning "White Emperor" in Ainu, also sometimes rendered in kanji as 白皇 which means the same thing) which was also the name of Erurū and Arurū's father, but was also his real name (Erurū and Arurū's father having been named after him, as Tusku ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dori (Middle-earth)
This article describes all named characters appearing in J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 book ''The Hobbit''. Creatures as collectives are not included. Characters are categorized by race. Spelling and point of view are given as from ''The Hobbit''. Hobbits * Bilbo Baggins of Bag End, the protagonist and titular hobbit of the story.''The Hobbit'', ch. 1 "An Unexpected Party" * Bungo Baggins, Bilbo's father. (mentioned only) * Belladonna Took, Bilbo's mother. (mentioned only) * The Old Took, Bilbo's maternal grandfather. (mentioned only) * Grubb, Grubb, and Burrowes, auctioneers managing the liquidation of Bilbo's effects.''The Hobbit'', ch. 19 "The Last Stage" Both names are connected with digging. * The Sackville-Bagginses, acquisitive cousins to Bilbo. * Bullroarer Took, a historical figure mentioned as the Old Took's great grand-uncle, and therefore Bilbo's great great great grand-uncle. However, according to the family tree published in Appendix C of ''The Lord of the Rings'', Bullr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Völuspá
''Vǫluspá'' (also ''Völuspá'', ''Vǫlospá'' or ''Vǫluspǫ́''; Old Norse: 'Prophecy of the völva, a seeress'; reconstructed Old Norse: ) is the best known poem of the ''Poetic Edda''. It tells the story of the creation of the world and its coming end and subsequent rebirth, related to the audience by a völva addressing Odin. It is one of the most important primary sources for the study of Norse mythology. The poem is preserved whole in the Codex Regius and Hauksbók manuscripts while parts of it are quoted in the ''Prose Edda''. Preservation ''Völuspá'' is found in the Icelandic Codex Regius manuscript (ca. 1270) and in Haukr Erlendsson's ''Hauksbók'' Codex (ca. 1334), and many of its stanzas are quoted or paraphrased in the Prose Edda (composed ca. 1220, oldest extant manuscript dates from ca. 1300). The order and number of the stanzas varies in these sources. Some editors and translators have further rearranged the material. The Codex Regius version is usually tak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yaakov Dori
Yaakov Dori (; October 8, 1899 – January 22, 1973), born Yaakov Dostrovsky, was the first Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). He was also the President of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Biography Yaakov Dostrovsky (later Dori) was born in Odessa in present-day Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire) to Tzvi and Myriam Dostrovsky. The family immigrated to Ottoman Palestine following the anti-Jewish pogrom in Odessa in 1905. Upon completing high school at the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa, he enlisted in the Jewish Legion of the British Army during World War I. Following the war he studied engineering at the University of Ghent. His son, Yerachmiel Dori, served as commander of the IDF's Engineering Corps. His daughter, Etana Padan, is a biochemist and a professor of microbial ecology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His youngest son, Zvi Dori, was a Chemistry Professor at the Technion and the founder of the first Israeli Science Museum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandro Dori
Sandro Dori (born Alberto Schiappadori; 21 December 1938 – 15 February 2021) was an Italian film, television and voice actor. References External links * 1938 births 2021 deaths Actors from the Province of Mantua Italian male film actors Italian male television actors Italian male voice actors Italian male stage actors 20th-century Italian male actors 21st-century Italian male actors {{Italy-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
