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Ord or ORD may refer to: Places * Ord of Caithness, landform in north-east Scotland * Ord, Nebraska, USA * Ord, Northumberland, England * Muir of Ord, village in Highland, Scotland * Ord, Skye, a place near Tarskavaig * Ord River, Western Australia ** Ord Irrigation Area Important Bird Area ** Ord River Floodplain, Ramsar Site ** Ord Victoria Plain * Ord Township, Nebraska (other), name of two townships in Nebraska, USA * East Ord, Northumberland, UK * Fort Ord, California, USA * O'Hare International Airport (IATA airport code "ORD"), an airport in Chicago, U.S. Mathematics * Ord, the category of preordered sets * Ord, the proper class of all ordinal numbers * ord(''V''), the order type of a well-ordered set ''V'' * ord''n''(''a''), the multiplicative order of ''a'' modulo ''n'' Businesses * Ord Publishing, an imprint of the German group VDM Publishing devoted to the reproduction of Wikipedia content Fiction * A prefix for several planets in the ''Star Wars'' universe, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ord Of Caithness
The Ord of Caithness is a granite mass on the east coast of the Highland council area of Scotland, on the boundary of the counties Sutherland and Caithness. It is north-east of Helmsdale. It forms a headland high, known as Ord Point. The A9 road passes above the Ord; there are sharp bends as it follows the contours. History Historically, "the grim barrier of the Ord guaranteed its .e. Caithness'sisolation, and travellers who passed that way were greatly impressed by the experience." It was described in the 1880s: "The old road over it, formerly the only land ingress to Caithness, traversed the crest of its stupendous seaward precipices at a height and in a manner most appalling to both man and beast... even the present road, formed in 1811... has very stiff gradients."Francis Groome Francis Hindes Groome (30 August 1851 – 24 January 1902), son of Robert Hindes Groome, Archdeacon of Suffolk, was a writer and foremost commentator of his time on the Romani people, their langua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |