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Dori Media
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 (1961–2022), American radio personality * Dorielton Gomes Nascimento (born 1990), Brazilian footballer * Dori Parra de Orellana (1923–2007), Venezuelan politician * Teodora Ruano (born 1969), Spanish racing cyclist * Dori Seda (1951–1988), A ... [...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 people, Fula (Fulani) but Tuaregs and Songhai people, Songhai 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. In 2020, it was reported that the Emir of Liptako lived in Dori. Climate Dori has a semi-arid climate (Köppen climate classification ''BSh''). Mines In 2004, a proposal surfaced to link the manganese mines by rail with the seaports of Transport in Ghana, Ghana. Notable people * Roukiatou Maiga, humanitarian * Albert Ouédraogo, former interim Burkinabé Prime Minister * Ousmane Amirou Dicko, Emir of Liptako See also * Railway stations in Burkina Faso Gallery File:ASC Leiden - ... [...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, Sanders tells how her father, a rural school teacher, purchased the land in approximately 1915 and began successfully cultivating peaches in the early 1920s. Works *''Clover: A Novel'', 1990 *''Her Own Place: A Novel'', 1993 *''Dori Sanders' Country Cooking: recipes and stories from the family farm stand'', 1995 *''Promise Land: A Farmer Remembers' ... [...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 fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rainbow Girl
Rainbow Girl (Dori Aandraison) 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, a group composed primarily of Legion rejects. Fictional character biography Dori Aandraison is a metahuman from the planet Xolnar who intended to join the Legion to launch a career as a holovid actress. After being rejected, she joins the Legion of Substitute Heroes and marries Metropolis socialite Irveang Polamar. Dori later works with the Substitute heroes to form a resistance when Earth becomes a closed-off and xenophobic society. They ultimately succeed and save Earth from an alien coalition. Powers and abilities Rainbow Girl can harness all colors of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuesday Weld
Tuesday Weld (born Susan Ker Weld; August 27, 1943) is a retired American actress. She began acting as a child and progressed to mature roles in the late 1950s. She won a Golden Globe Award, Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Female Newcomer in 1960. Over the following decade, she established a career playing dramatic roles in films. Weld often portrayed impulsive and reckless women and was nominated for a Golden Globe for ''Play It as It Lays (film), Play It as It Lays'' (1972), an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for ''Looking for Mr. Goodbar (film), Looking for Mr. Goodbar'' (1977), an Emmy Award for ''The Winter of Our Discontent (film), The Winter of Our Discontent'' (1983), and a British Academy Film Awards, BAFTA for ''Once Upon a Time in America'' (1984). After the 1980s her acting appearances became infrequent, and her last role to date was in 2001's ''Chelsea Walls''. Background and family Weld was born Susan Ker Weld in Manhattan on Friday, August 27, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock, Rock, Rock!
''Rock, Rock, Rock!'' is a 1956 musical drama film conceived, co-written and co-produced by Milton Subotsky and directed by Will Price. The film is an early jukebox musical featuring performances by established rock and roll singers of the era, including Chuck Berry, LaVern Baker, Teddy Randazzo, the Moonglows, the Flamingos, and the Teenagers with Frankie Lymon as lead singer. Later ''West Side Story'' cast member David Winters is also featured. Famed disc jockey Alan Freed made an appearance as himself. Valerie Harper made her debut in a brief appearance as an extra seated at the center table during the performance of "Ever Since I Can Remember" by Cirino and the Bowties and can be seen after the performance of Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers. This was also Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers' film debut. Almost every member of the cast was signed to a record label at the time, which was credited along with each star. In 1984, the film entered the public domain in the United Stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Utawarerumono Characters
''Utawarerumono'' is a Japanese Tactical role-playing game, tactical role-playing visual novel developed by Leaf (company), Leaf, which released in April 2002 for Microsoft Windows as an Eroge, adult game. It was later Porting, ported to the PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita with the adult content removed. In releases subsequent to the initial 2002 version, it is known by its more specific title ''Utawarerumono: Prelude to the Fallen''. The game was highly successful in Japan and has since been adapted into a wide variety of other media, including several anime series, drama CDs, and Internet radio, Internet radio programs, and manga. A sequel for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita titled ''Utawarerumono: Mask of Deception'' was released in Japan in September 2015, and worldwide in May 2017. The final chapter of the trilogy, titled ''Utawarerumono: Mask of Truth'', was released in Japan in September 2016, an ... [...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. They are, further, snobbish and bourgeois. * , 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 ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Völuspá
''Völuspá'' (also ''Vǫluspá'', ''Vǫlospá'', or ''Vǫluspǫ́''; Old Norse: 'Prophecy of the völva, a seeress') is the best known poem of the ''Poetic Edda''. It dates back to the tenth century and tells the story from Norse Mythology of the creation of the world, its coming end, and its subsequent rebirth that is related to the audience by a völva addressing Odin. Her name is given twice as Heiðr. The poem is one of the most important primary sources for the study of Norse mythology. Parts of the poem appear in the ''Prose Edda'', but the earliest known wholly-preserved version of the poem is in the Codex Regius and Hauksbók manuscripts. Preservation Many of stanzas of ''Völuspá'' appear first in the Prose Edda (composed , of which the oldest extant manuscript dates from the beginning of the fourteenth century () in which the stanzas are quoted or paraphrased. The full poem is found in the Icelandic Codex Regius manuscript () and in the Haukr Erlendsson ''Hauk ... [...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, was 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 Mu ... [...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 Male actors from Lombardy Italian male film actors Italian male television actors Italian male voice actors 20th-century Italian male actors 21st-century Italian male actors {{Italy-voice-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonora Dori
Leonora Dori Galigaï (19 May 1568 – 8 July 1617) was a French courtier of Italian origin, an influential favourite of the French regent Marie de' Medici, mother of King Louis XIII of France. Galigaï was married to Concino Concini, the later marquis and then marshal d'Ancre, during Marie's reign as queen mother and regent of France. Early life and France Galigaï, the daughter of a carpenter named Dori, grew up in Florence in the Palazzo Pitti as a young attendant of Marie de' Medici, who managed to buy her adoption from the '' Galigai'', a poor but noble Florentine family. In 1600, she followed her mistress to France who married King Henry IV of France, who named Galigaï Dame d'atour (lady-in-waiting) to the Queen Marie, immediately after her marriage to the Florentine nobleman Concini. Galigaï suffered from debilitating depressions and paralyzing spasms, which may have been symptoms of epilepsy, which the queen and her courtiers believed to be due to demonic possession, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
