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Dora (given name) Dora ( el, Δώρα) is a female name of Greek origin being a shortened form or derived from Dorothea (Dorothy), Theodora meaning "Gift" or in its full form "God's Gift", from , ''doron'', "gift" + , ''theos'', "god". The name ''Dora'' can also be ...

Places

United States

* Dora, Alabama *

Dora, Arkansas Dora is an unincorporated area, unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Crawford County, Arkansas, Crawford County in the western part of the U.S. state of Arkansas. It is located approximately three miles west of Van Buren ...

Dora, Missouri Dora is an unincorporated community in Ozark County, in the U.S. state of Missouri Missouri is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by area, ...

Dora, New Mexico Dora is a village in Roosevelt County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 133 at the 2010 census. Former Texas Tech Red Raiders baseball coach Larry Hays attended school in Dora. Geography Dora is located at (33.931279, -103.337472 ...

* Dora, Oregon *

Dora, Pennsylvania Dora is an unincorporated community in Jefferson County, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appal ...

Mount Dora, Florida Mount Dora is a city in Lake County, Florida, US. As of the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census it had a population of 12,370, and in 2019 the population was estimated to be 14,516. It is part of the Orlando-Kissimmee, Florida, Metropolitan S ...

Other countries

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, Australia. It has a surface level of . Features and location It has two adjacent tarns just west of it, Maxfield and ...

Lake Dora (Western Australia) } Lake Dora ( Wanman: ''Ngayartakujarra'') is a seasonal salt lake located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. It lies between the vegetated sand fields of the Great Sandy and Gibson Deserts. The Rudall River The Rudall River ( W ...

* Dora, Baghdad, Iraq * Dora, Cyprus *

Dora, Lebanon Dora ( ar, الدورة, translit=ad-Dawrah) also spelled Doura or Daura, is a suburb north-east of Beirut in the Matn District of Mount Lebanon Governorate. The suburb has commercial and residential zones. Dora is administered by Bourj Hammoud m ...

* Dura, Hebron, in the Israeli West Bank * Dorasan or Mount Dora, a hill in South Korea *

Dora Beel Dora Beel is a wetland and lake located at Rampur no. 2 village under the Palashbari revenue circle and surrounded by villages like Rajapukhuri, Nahira, Bhakatpara, Tezpur, Rampur, Majpara, Kuldung, Dhantola, Bortari and Khidirpukhuri in Kamru ...

, a lake in Assam (India) * Dora Baltea river and Dora Riparia river, northern Italy

Entertainment

* '' Dora the Explorer'', American children's television program * '' Dora and the Lost City of Gold'', a 2019 live-action movie loosely based on the TV program * ''Dora'' (TV series), a 1973 British sitcom series * ''Dora'' (1933 film), a British comedy film * ''Dora'' (2017 film), a Tamil language horror thriller movie *

Dora Mavor Moore Award The Dora Mavor Moore Award (also known as the Dora 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 estab ...

for Canadian professional theatre * "Dora", 1984 song by Ambitious Lovers from the album '' Envy'' * Dora, a designated bonus tile used in Japanese Mahjong * '' Doraemon'', Japanese anime and manga in Tv Asahi * Dora, fictional character in the webcomic ''

Erfworld ''Erfworld'' was a story-driven fantasy/comedy webcomic and independently published graphic novel about a master strategy gamer summoned into and stuck inside a wargame running from December 2006 to its abrupt cancellation in October 2019. It f ...

'' * Dora Bianchi, fictional character in the webcomic ''

Questionable Content ''Questionable Content'' (sometimes abbreviated as ''QC'') is a slice-of-life webcomic written and illustrated by Jeph Jacques. It was launched in August 2003 and reached its 4,500th comic in April 2021. The plot originally centered on Marten Re ...

'' *

Dora Spenlow Dora Spenlow is a character in the 1850 novel ''David Copperfield'' by Charles Dickens. She is portrayed as beautiful yet childish. David, who is employed by her father, the lawyer Mr Spenlow, falls in love with Dora at first sight and marries her ...

, fictional character in ''David Copperfield'' by Charles Dickens * Dora, one of

Lazarus Long Lazarus 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 (birth name Woodrow Wi ...

's primary spacecraft, and her sentient integral computer, in novels by Robert A. Heinlein * Nymphadora Tonks, fictional character in the ''Harry Potter'' universe * HRT Dora, Croatian music festival and preselection venue for the Eurovision Song Contest

Military and war

Dora (artillery) Schwerer Gustav (English: ''Heavy Gustav'') was a German railway gun. It was developed in the late 1930s by Krupp in Rügenwalde as siege artillery for the explicit purpose of destroying the main forts of the French Maginot Line, the stronges ...

, 80cm German railway artillery pieces * Dora I, and Dora II, German U-boat bases in Trondheim, Norway * Dora, code name of World War II Soviet intelligence agent Alexander Radó * Defence of the Realm Act 1914 (DORA), British war legislation adopted in August 1914 * Fw 190 D "Dora", model of

Focke-Wulf Fw 190 The Focke-Wulf Fw 190, nicknamed ''Würger'' (" Shrike") is a German single-seat, single-engine fighter aircraft designed by Kurt Tank at Focke-Wulf in the late 1930s and widely used during World War II. Along with its well-known counterpart, ...

German fighter aircraft *

Mittelbau-Dora Mittelbau-Dora (also Dora-Mittelbau and Nordhausen-Dora) was a Nazi concentration camp located near Nordhausen in Thuringia, Germany. It was established in late summer 1943 as a subcamp of Buchenwald concentration camp, supplying slave labour ...

, World War II concentration camp

Other uses

* DORA, acronym in computer networking for Discover, Offer, Request, Acknowledge process in the DHCP protocol * 668 Dora, main belt asteroid * Dora (case study) of Sigmund Freud, described in ''A Case of Hysteria'' * Dora (grape), another name for the Italian wine grape Fortana * ''Dora'' (sternwheeler), a 1910 steamboat in Oregon * SS ''Dora'', one of at least two steamships active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries * Dora, a medieval title of the feudal landlord in the Telangana region of India * dumb Dora, a slang term from the 1920s meaning "idiotic woman" * Tropical Storm Dora (disambiguation), list of tropical cyclones worldwide named ''Dora'' * DORA, the

San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) intends to halt the practice of correlating the journal impact factor to the merits of a specific scientist's contributions. Also according to this statement, this practice creates bias ...

, intending to halt the practice of correlating the journal impact factor to the merits of a specific scientist's contributions *

Dual orexin receptor antagonist An orexin receptor antagonist, or orexin antagonist, is a drug that inhibits the effect of orexin by acting as a receptor antagonist of one or both of the orexin receptors, OX1 and OX2. Medical applications include treatment of sleep disorders su ...

, a type of sleep medication * Abbreviation for the gene

downregulated by activation IGSF6 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ''IGSF6'' gene. Overview In humans, the immunoglobulin superfamily member 6 (IGSF6) gene with alias DORA encodes CD8 protein IGSF6 (24 kDA) with orthologs in Mammal, mammals, Bird, birds, Re ...