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Doro (mythology)
Doro may refer to: * Doro (musician), rock singer, former vocalist of the German heavy metal band Warlock ** ''Doro'' (album), a 1990 album by Doro * Dorothea Wierer, Italian biathlete * Doro (company), a Swedish telecommunications company * Doro, a fictional character in the ''Patternist'' series of novels by Octavia E. Butler * DoRo Productions, a film company based in Austria, formerly known for their music videos * SS ''Doro'', originally SS ''Empire Deed'', a Panamanian cargo ship in service 1951–1956 * Doro, South Sudan * Doro, a nickname and a meme given to the character Dorothy from the game '' Goddess of Victory: Nikke''. See also *Toro (other) Toro may refer to: Places *Toro, Molise, a ''comune'' in the Province of Campobasso, Italy *Toro, Nigeria, a Local Government Area of Bauchi State, Nigeria *Toro, Shizuoka, an archaeological site in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan *Toro, Zamora, a ''m ... {{disambiguation ja:ドロ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doro (musician)
Dorothee Pesch (born 3 June 1964), known professionally as Doro Pesch or simply Doro, is a German heavy metal singer and the former frontwoman of heavy metal band Warlock. Doro's contributions to music and culture made her a global figure in metal culture for over three decades. The name Doro has also been associated with the touring band accompanying the singer, whose members have continuously changed in more than 20 years of uninterrupted activity, the most stable presences being those of bassist Nick Douglas and drummer Johnny Dee. Doro started her career in garage bands in native Düsseldorf underground scene and achieved media visibility and some commercial success with Warlock in the 1980s. Warlock were starting to have an opening in the US market, when they went through many line-up changes and Pesch was left the only original member of the band. She started a solo career under the name Doro, in order to avoid legal battles between her record label PolyGram and her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doro (album)
''Doro'' is the second solo album of the German female hard rock singer Doro Pesch. The album was released on 25 September 1990. Overview Doro's second album is more a solo effort than a band production. In fact, the German singer chose for herself a new musical direction, consciously separating the music creative process from normal band dynamics, the contrary of what she had always done in the past with Warlock. The album production was put in the hands of Kiss bassist Gene Simmons, Doro's childhood idol. Simmons provided five songs, including the covers of The Electric Prunes' 60s psychedelic hit " I Had Too Much to Dream" and of Black 'n Blue's "Rock On", and musicians coming from the Kiss' entourage to complete the recording. The song "Only You" is a Kiss cover from the album '' Music from "The Elder"'' (1981). He gave his protégé Tommy Thayer from the band Black 'n Blue (another band Simmons produced) a chance to shine as co-producer of the album, along with Pat Rega ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothea Wierer
Dorothea Wierer (, ; born 3 April 1990) is an Italian biathlete competing in the Biathlon World Cup. Together with Karin Oberhofer, Dominik Windisch and Lukas Hofer she won a bronze medal in the Mixed relay at the 2014 Winter Olympics, in Sochi, Russia. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea she won again the bronze medal in the Mixed relay with Lisa Vittozzi, Lukas Hofer and Dominik Windisch. At the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, she won her first individual medal in the Sprint. She is the 2019 Mass Start World Champion and the 2020 Pursuit and Individual World Champion. Career Wierer has won her first Biathlon World Championships medal, placing third in the Women's relay together with Nicole Gontier, Michela Ponza and Karin Oberhofer at the Biathlon World Championships 2013 in Nové Město na Moravě, which was the first ever medal for Italian women at the Biathlon World Championships. At the 2019 Championships in Östersund, she won th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doro (company)
Doro AB, known as Doro, is a Sweden, Swedish consumer electronics and assistive technology company focused on the elderly and improving the lives of seniors. Founded in 1974 in Sweden as a challenger to the state-run telecommuncations monopoly, the company develops communications products and services designed primarily for the elderly, such as mobile phones and telecare systems. Doro operates a number of alarm receiving centres in Sweden, Norway and the United Kingdom. It is currently awaiting a merger-style acquisition by Xplora, a company which manufactures smartwatches for children. The acquisition aims to let Doro still operate as an independent entity, but bundle Xplora Connect sim cards with Doro phones. Products Doro produce both clam and bar type feature phones which run Doro's own operating system, such as the Doro 6820 and the Doro 7060, and smartphones such as Doro 8080 and Doro 8100, which run on Android (operating system), Android. Its devices are designed wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patternist Series
The ''Patternist'' series (also known as the ''Patternmaster'' series or ''Seed to Harvest'') is a group of science fiction novels by Octavia E. Butler that detail a secret history continuing from the Ancient Egyptian period to the far future that involves telepathic mind control and an extraterrestrial plague. A profile of Butler in ''Black Women in America'' notes that the themes of the series include "racial and gender-based animosity, the ethical implications of biological engineering, the question of what it means to be human, ethical and unethical uses of power, and how the assumption of power changes people." Butler's first published novel, 1976's ''Patternmaster'', was the first book in this series to be released. From 1977 until 1984, she published four more ''Patternist'' novels: '' Mind of My Mind'' (1977), ''Survivor'' (1978), '' Wild Seed'' (1980) and '' Clay's Ark'' (1984). Until Butler began publishing the '' Xenogenesis'' trilogy in 1987, all but one of her publis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DoRo Productions
DoRo Produktion Ges.mbH DoRo Productions is a film company based in Vienna, Austria. DoRo was named after the surnames of founders Rudi Dolezal and Hannes Rossacher. History Dolezal and Rossacher, also known as the "Torpedo Twins", first started producing television series for Austrian and German stations ORF, ARD and ZDF. They gained international acclaim and won several awards for their music videos for artists such as Queen, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Miles Davis, Michael Jackson, Bon Jovi, Whitney Houston, Bruce Springsteen, Falco and Frank Zappa, as well as several German and Austrian acts such as Trio, Marius Müller-Westernhagen, and Herbert Grönemeyer. Furthermore, DoRo produced numerous acclaimed documentaries, mostly on musicians, bands and similarly music-related topics. DoRo Productions spawned numerous subsidiaries (German MTV competitor VIVA was partly founded and conceived by DoRo). However, in late 2002 the economic downturn in the music business in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS Doro
''Empire Deed'' was a cargo ship that was built in 1943 by Bartram & Sons Ltd, Sunderland, Co Durham, United Kingdom the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT). In 1946, she was sold into merchant service and renamed ''Deed''. In 1951, she was sold to Panama and renamed ''Doro''. A sale to Greece in 1956 saw her renamed ''Leonidas Cambanis''. In 1964, she was sold to Liberia and renamed ''Ever Fortune'' followed by a sale to Taiwan later that year and renaming to ''Ever Happiness''. She served until 1967, when she was scrapped at Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Description The ship was built in 1943 by Bartram & Sons Ltd, Sunderland, Co Durham. She was yard number 295. The ship was long, with a beam of . She had a depth of and a draught of . She was assessed at , . The ship was propelled by a triple expansion steam engine, which had cylinders of , and diameter by stroke. The engine was built by North East Marine Engine (1938) Ltd, Sunderlane. History World War II 1943 ''Empire Deed'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doro, South Sudan
Doro is a village and a refugee camp in Maban County, Upper Nile State, South Sudan South Sudan (), officially the Republic of South Sudan, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered on the north by Sudan; on the east by Ethiopia; on the south by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Kenya; and on the .... It was previously a part of Upper Nile state. References {{SouthSudan-geo-stub Upper Nile (state) Refugee camps in South Sudan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikke
''Goddess of Victory: Nikke'' is a third-person shooter action role-playing video game developed by South Korean developer Shift Up and published by Level Infinite. Development of ''Nikke'' began as early as 2017, and it was released for Android and iOS in 2022, and Windows in 2023. The game's action-based battle system revolves around quick character-switching and the usage of combat skills in an anime-style environment. The game is free-to-play and features a ''gacha'' game system, through which in-app purchases are used as a method for monetization. It garnered over US$70 million in its first month of release. ''Goddess of Victory: Nikke'' is set in a post-apocalyptic future where the surface of the Earth was overthrown by mechanical aliens, called Raptures. The surviving humans fled underground and produced artificial soldiers called Nikkes. The story follows a Commander and his squad of Nikkes who hope to reclaim the surface. Gameplay ''Goddess of Victory: Nikke' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toro (other)
Toro may refer to: Places *Toro, Molise, a ''comune'' in the Province of Campobasso, Italy *Toro, Nigeria, a Local Government Area of Bauchi State, Nigeria *Toro, Shizuoka, an archaeological site in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan *Toro, Zamora, a ''municipio'' in the Province of Zamora, Castille and León, Spain *Toro District, one of eleven districts of the province La Unión in Peru *Tooro Kingdom, a traditional kingdom in Uganda *Toro sub-region, a region that is coterminous with the Toro Kingdom in Western Uganda *Shakhtyorsk, a town in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, known as Toro in Japanese *1685 Toro, an asteroid Companies *The Toro Company, an American manufacturer of lawnmowers and other lawn equipment *Toro (Norwegian company), a Norwegian food company People *Toró (born 1986), nickname of Brazilian footballer Rafael Ferreira Francisco *Toro y Moi (born 1986), professional name of American singer Chaz Bear *Abraham Toro (born 1996), Canadian baseball player *Alfredo Toro Hardy ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
