Dora

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Dora can refer to:

• A female name
• Asteroid 668 Dora, namesake of the Dora family of asteroids
• Dora - Croatian national preselection for the Eurovision Song Contest
• The WW II concentration camp of Mittelbau-Dora
• Dora Penny, recipient of the Dorabella Cipher
• The pseudonym of Sigmund Freud's patient Ida Bauer, about whom he wrote a "Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria," one of his notable early papers, written in 1901.
• Several geographic locations
  • The city of Dora, Alabama
  • The city of Dora, New Mexico
  • Dora, a major neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq
  • Lake Dora in Western Australia
  • Two Italian rivers, tributaries of the Po River, from the Celtic "duria", meaning water
    • The Italian river Dora Baltea
    • The Italian river Dora Riparia
• Dora, one of the two 80cm railway artillery pieces constructed by the Krupp company for Nazi Germany during World War II. It was named after the wife of the senior engineer.
• Dora the Explorer, an animated series and commercially franchised character on play items for preschool-age children.
• Hurricane Dora, a 1964 hurricane, the first and last to hit Jacksonville, Florida.
• The Dora Awards for Canadian professional theatre.
• Dora, a singer who represented Portugal in the 1986 Eurovision Song Contest as well as the1988 Eurovision Song Contest
• The EV-DO Revision A standard, abbreviated DOrA
• The FW-190 "Dora"

[edit] See also

• DORA, the Defence of the Realm Act, passed in Britain in August 1914.
• Doralice