Gore may refer to:
Places
Australia
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Gore, Queensland
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Gore Creek (New South Wales)
Gore Creek, an urban watercourse that is part of the Parramatta River catchment, is located in Northern Suburbs region of Sydney, Australia.
Course and features
Gore Creek rises in the suburb of Lane Cove on the western side of the Pacific Hig ...
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Gore Island (Queensland)
Canada
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Gore, Nova Scotia
Gore is a rural Canadian community in central Hants County, Nova Scotia. It is located just 25 minutes from Elmsdale; 30 minutes from Halifax Stanfield International Airport; and 45 minutes from Truro. It was named after Sir Charles Stephen Gore. ...
, a rural community
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Gore, Quebec, a township municipality
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Gore Bay, Ontario
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Gore Bay became a town on April 7, 1890, on Manitoulin Island in Ontario, Canada. Located on Gore Bay, a bay of Lake Huron's North Channel, it is one of the two incorporated towns of Manitoulin District, of which it is the administrative and gov ...
, a township on Manitoulin Island
United Kingdom
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Gore Hundred, a historic subdivision of Middlesex
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Kensington Gore
Kensington Gore is the name of a U-shaped thoroughfare on the south side of Hyde Park in central London, England. The streets connect the Royal Albert Hall with the Royal College of Art, the Royal Geographical Society, and in Kensington Garde ...
, a street in Kensington, West London
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Gore House, on Kensington Gore
United States
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Gore, Georgia, an unincorporated community
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Gore, Missouri Gore is an unincorporated community in southwest Warren County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The community lies on the north edge of the Missouri River Valley. Missouri Route 94 passes just north of the community and the Katy Trail passes t ...
, an unincorporated community
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Gore, Ohio
Gore is an unincorporated community in Hocking County, in the U.S. state of Ohio.
History
Old variant names of Gore include Hamlin, New Gore and Burgessville. Burgessville was first to be laid out, in January 1871. Hamlin was laid out in Februar ...
, an unincorporated community
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Gore, Oklahoma
Gore is a town in western Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, United States. It is part of the Fort Smith, Arkansas-Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 977 at the 2010 census, an increase of 15 percent over the figure of 850 recorded ...
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Gore, Virginia, an unincorporated community
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Gore Canyon
Gore Canyon, elevation , is a short isolated canyon on the upper Colorado River in southwestern Grand County, Colorado in the United States. Steep and rugged, the approximately 3 mile (5 km) long gorge was carved by the river as it passed ...
, Colorado
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Gore Creek (Colorado)
Gore Creek is a tributary of the Eagle River, approximately long, in Eagle County, Colorado, United States,
Description
The river drains an area of the Rocky Mountains at the south end of the Gore Range through Gore Valley. It rises on the Ea ...
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Gore Mountain (New York)
Gore Mountain is a mountain located near the village of North Creek in Warren County, New York, of which its peak is the highest point. Gore is flanked to the north by South Mountain, and to the southwest by Height of Land Mountain. The mountai ...
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Gore Mountain (Vermont)
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Gore Range, Colorado
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Goretown, South Carolina
Goretown (also Gore Town) is an unincorporated community in Horry County, South Carolina, United States. Goretown is located east of Loris
Loris is the common name for the strepsirrhine mammals of the subfamily Lorinae (sometimes spelled Loris ...
, an unincorporated community
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Junction City, Kentucky
Junction City is a home rule-class city in Boyle County on its border with Lincoln County in the U.S. state of Kentucky. Junction City's population was 2,241 at the 2010 U.S. census. It is part of the Danville Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Hi ...
, formerly known as Gore
*"The Gore", southeast Indiana, a nickname for part of the former Northwest Territory ceded from Ohio to Indiana in 1803, originally
Dearborn County
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Gore Township, Michigan
Elsewhere
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Gorë, a former municipality in Korçë County, Albania
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Goré, Chad, a town
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Roman Catholic Diocese of Goré, Chad
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Gore District, Upper Canada, an historical district of Upper Canada, now the province of Ontario, Canada
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Gore District, New Zealand, a district in the Southland region of the South Island of New Zealand
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Gore, New Zealand
Gore ( mi, Maruawai) is a town and Gore District, New Zealand, district in the Southland Region, Southland region of the South Island of New Zealand.
Geography
The town of Gore is located on State Highway 1 (New Zealand), State Highway 1 64&nbs ...
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Gore, Ethiopia, a town
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Gore Island (Baja California), Mexico
People
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Gore (surname)
Gore is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
People with the surname A-E
*Al Gore (born 1948), American politician, US Vice President, author, and environmental activist
* Albert Gore Sr. (1907–1998), American lawyer and politic ...
, including a list of notable people with the surname
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Al Gore
Albert Arnold Gore Jr. (born March 31, 1948) is an American politician, businessman, and environmentalist who served as the 45th vice president of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. Gore was the Democratic Part ...
(born 1948), American politician and environmentalist
* Gore, family name of the
Earls of Arran Earl of Arran may refer to:
*Earl of Arran (Scotland)
Earl of Arran is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It is not to be confused with the title Earl of Arran in the Peerage of Ireland. The two titles refer to different places: the Isle of A ...
in the Peerage of Ireland
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Gore baronets, in the Baronetage of Ireland
* Gregor
Gore Verbinski (born 1964), American film director, screenwriter, producer and musician
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Gore Vidal (1925–2012), American writer
Arts, entertainment, and media
Fictional places
*Gore, a mythical place mentioned in the Arthurian legend, ruled by King Urien and probably based on the historical kingdom of
Rheged
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The Gore, a fictional place in J. R. R. Tolkien's ''The Lord of the Rings''
Music
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Gore (band)
Gore was a Dutch rock band formed in 1985. They released five studio albums, one live album, one EP, two compilation albums with live material, demo recordings and remixes and had two compilation appearances between 1986 and 1997. They split up i ...
, a Dutch rock band formed in 1985
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''Gore'' (album), 2016 album by Deftones, or the title track
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''Gore'' (2020 album), 2020 album by Lous and the Yakuza
* "Gore", a song by Trippie Redd from his 2018 album ''
Life's a Trip''
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
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''Gore'' (film), a cancelled biographical film about Gore Vidal
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Gore: Ultimate Soldier'', a 2002 first-person shooter video game
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''The Unseen'' (novel), a horror-mystery novel by Joseph Citro, also known as ''The Gore''
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Splatter film, a horror genre also known as "gore film"
*Gore, colloquial term for recordings of
graphic violence
Textiles
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Gore (fabrics), a triangular piece of cloth used in dress making or hat making
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Gore-Tex, a fabric made by W. L. Gore and Associates
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W. L. Gore and Associates
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. is an American multinational manufacturing company specializing in products derived from fluoropolymers. It is a privately held corporation headquartered in Newark, Delaware. It is best known as the developer of wat ...
, maker of Gore-Tex fabrics and other industrial products
Other uses
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Gore (heraldry)
In heraldry a gore is a charge formed by two inwardly curved lines starting from the dexter chief (for the view, the upper left) corner and the middle base point and meeting in the fess point (lower center).
The same charge upon the sinister ...
, a roughly triangular charge upon a shield in a coat of arms
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Gore (road)
In road and highway construction a gore (or nose in modern British English) is a triangular plot of land (as designated when a road forks when intersecting a second road, or merges on and off from a larger one). A "virtual" (or "theoretical") ...
, a narrow, triangular area of land often found at road merges and diverges
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Gore (segment), an (often triangular) sector of a curved surface as used to make globes and balloons
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Gore (surveying)
A gore is an irregular parcel of land, as small as a triangle of median in a street intersection or as large as an unincorporated area the size of a township.
In old English law, a gore was a small, narrow strip of land. In modern land law an ...
, a narrow usually triangular strip of land
* , a British frigate which served in the Royal Navy from 1943 to 1946
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Striking spear, or The Gore, a wrestling attack move used by Rhyno
See also
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Goar (disambiguation)
Goar was a leader of the Alans in 5th-century Gaul.
Goar may also refer to:
People Given name
*Goar of Aquitaine (c. 585–649), a priest and hermit of the seventh century; patron saint of innkeepers, potters, and vine growers
* Goar Hlgatian (bo ...
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Gor (disambiguation)
Gor is the alternate-world setting for a novel series by John Norman.
Gor or GOR may also refer to:
Fiction and mythology
* ''Gor'' (film), a science fiction and fantasy film, 1987
* ''Gor Saga'', a 1981 novel by Maureen Duffy, televised as '' ...
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Goring (disambiguation)
Goring may refer to:
Places in England
* Goring Gap, geological feature on the River Thames near Reading, England
*Goring Heath, village and parish, Oxfordshire
*Goring-on-Thames, village and parish, Oxfordshire
*Goring Lock, a lock and weir on ...
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Gorr (disambiguation) Gorr is an alternative transliteration of Nór, the mythic founder of Norway.
Gorr may also refer to:
*Gorr the God Butcher, a Marvel Comics character, enemy of Thor
** Gorr (Marvel Cinematic Universe), the Marvel Cinematic Universe version of th ...
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