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Vera
Vera may refer to: Names *Vera (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) * Vera (given name), a given name (including a list of people and fictional characters with the name) **Vera (), archbishop of the archdiocese of Tarragona Places Spain *Vera, Almería, a municipality in the province of Almería, Andalusia * Vera de Bidasoa, a municipality in the autonomous community of Navarra *La Vera, a comarca in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura United States * Vera, Illinois, an unincorporated community * Vera, Kansas, a ghost town *Vera, Missouri, an unincorporated community * Vera, Oklahoma, a town *Vera, Texas, an unincorporated community * Vera, Virginia, an unincorporated community *Veradale, Washington, originally known as Vera, CDP Elsewhere *Vera, Santa Fe, a city in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina *Vera Department, an administrative subdivision (departamento) of the province of Santa Fe * Vera, Mato Grosso, Brazil, a municipality * Cape Vera, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vera (given Name)
Vera (: ''Véra'', "faith") is a female given name of Slavic origin, and by folk etymology it has also been explained as Latin ''vera'' meaning "true". In Slavic languages, Vera means faith. The name Vera has been used in the English speaking world since the 19th century and was popular in the early 20th century. Gender: FeminineIn the Russian language, Vera may also be a diminutive of the male first names Avenir and Averky. Usage: English, German, Italian, Spanish, Scandinavian, Slovak, Czech, Greek, Dutch, Slovene, Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, Portuguese, Russian, Albanian, French, Polish, Armenian, Hungarian, Romanian. Other scripts: Вера (Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Macedonian), Βέρα (Greek) Diminutives: Veer, Veerke, Veertje (Dutch), Verica (Serbian and Croatian), Verka or Vierka (Slovakian), Verochka (Russian). Other languages: Véra (French), Věra (Czech), Veera (Finnish), Veer, Veerle (Dutch), Wiera (Polish), Vira (Ukrainian), Viera (Slovak), ف ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vera (TV Series)
''Vera'' is a British crime drama series based on the Vera Stanhope series of novels written by crime writer Ann Cleeves. It was first broadcast on ITV on 1 May 2011, and to date, eleven series have aired, with the latest debuting on 29 August 2021. The series stars Brenda Blethyn as the principal character, Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope. In 2021, Ann Cleeves confirmed that the character of Vera was based on a neighbour of her maternal grandmother. The neighbour had been something of a busybody and her personality was the basis for Vera. Vera is a nearly retired employee of the fictional 'Northumberland & City Police', who is obsessive about her work and driven by her own demons. She plods along in a constantly dishevelled state, but has a calculating mind and, despite her irascible personality, she cares deeply about her work and colleagues. She often proves her superior skills by picking up small errors in her team members' thought processes. Vera forms a clo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vera (surname)
Vera is a Spanish surname. Notable persons with that surname include: * Alejo Vera (1834–1923), Spanish painter * Alfredo Vera Vera (1910–1999), Ecuadorian politician * Alfonso Vera (born 1974), Mexican radio and television host * America Vera Zavala (born 1976), Romanian-born Swedish politician and political writer * Anastacio Vera (born 1985), Paraguayan footballer * Ángel Herrera Vera (born 1957), Cuban boxer * Antonio Vera (born 1986), Spanish footballer * Arturo Vera (born 1946), Argentine politician * Augusto Vera (1813–1885), Italian philosopher * Bernard Vera (born 1950), French politician * Billy Vera (born 1944), American singer, actor, writer and music historian * Brandon Vera (born 1977), Filipino-American professional mixed martial artist * Brian Vera (born 1981), Mexican-American boxer * Carlos Vera (born 1976), Ecuadorian football referee * Cris de Vera (1924–1975), Filipino actor * Cristobal de Vera (1577–1621), Spanish painter * Dan Vera (first publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vera, Almería
Vera is a municipality of Almería province, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. Today Vera is one of the most important commercial centres in the region, with a thriving traditional core and a number of supermarkets and commercial organisations spread along the ring road. Vera itself lies approximately inland from the coast, but the municipality extends to the sea shore. There, a tourist settlement, named Vera Playa, has been developed. This now forms the main economic activity of Vera. Since 1990, Vera Playa has developed into an important naturist village. History The earliest Carthaginian, Roman and Moorish settlement was at Baria, by the sea near Villaricos. But in the unsettled times of the early Middle Ages, the settlement was moved inland to the hill of Espiritu Santo, but an earthquake destroyed it in 1518. Following the earthquake it was rebuilt on the site it currently occupies, as a rectangular layout with eight towers and two gates. At the centre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vera; Or, The Nihilists
''Vera; or, The Nihilists'' is a play by Oscar Wilde. It is a tragedy set in Russia and is loosely based on the life of Vera Zasulich. It was Wilde's first play, and the first to be performed. A draft of the script was completed in 1880 and the following year arrangements were made for a one-off staging in London with Mrs. Bernard-Beere in the title role, but the production was cancelled. The first performance was in 1883 at New York’s Union Square Theatre, and was based on revisions made by Wilde while lecturing in America in 1882. The play, which starred Marie Prescott as Vera, was not a success and folded after only one week. It is rarely revived. Production history At the time of writing, the reform-minded Tsar Alexander II was involved in a struggle with revolutionaries who sought to assassinate him (and eventually succeeded). Though none of Wilde's characters correspond to actual Russian people of the time, the above situation was well-known both to Wilde and to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Vera
La Vera is a comarca (county, but with no administrative role) in Extremadura, western Spain. The largest town is Jaraíz de la Vera. Located at the feet of the Sierra de Gredos mountain range, in the Tiétar river valley, the comarca is economically based on agriculture. It is the home of the highly sought-after Pimentón Paprika ( US , ; UK , ) is a spice made from dried and ground red peppers. It is traditionally made from '' Capsicum annuum'' varietals in the Longum group, which also includes chili peppers, but the peppers used for paprika tend to be milde ... de la Vera, which has achieved “Protected Denomination of Origin” status. {{coord, 40, 05, 55, N, 5, 40, 50, W, type:adm3rd_source:kolossus-cawiki, display=title Province of Cáceres Comarcas of Extremadura ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vera, Croatia
Vera ( sr-Cyrl, Вера) is a village in Trpinja Municipality in eastern Croatia. The village is the northernmost settlement of the Vukovar-Syrmia County. Name The villages of Trpinja, Bobota and Vera share a common legend about the origin of their names. According to the legend, the ancestors of today's inhabitants of villages, who settled at the time of the Great Serb Migrations under Arsenije III Čarnojević, were called Bobe. They were fleeing from the Ottoman Empire conquests of Balkan as they wanted to preserve their religious freedom. This legendary religious commitment and orthodoxy was coined in the local phrase ''Bobe endured for the faith'' or originally in Serbian ''Bobe trpiše za veru''. The family name of 'Bobe' was used as the basis for the name of Bobota, the word 'endured' ( sr, trpiti) the name of Trpinja was created and from the word of faith (Serbian: ) the name of Vera was coined.http://www.trpinja.hr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13&Itemid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veradale, Washington
Veradale—originally known as Vera—is a locale and former census-designated place (CDP) in Spokane County, Washington, United States. The population was 9,387 at the 2000 census. Veradale retains its own post office. History Veradale was named for Vera McDonald, the daughter of the man who founded the community in 1911. Since 2003, the area has been incorporated as part of the city of Spokane Valley. , , 2007-07-01. Accessed 2008-11-05. Geography Veradale is located at (47.650195, -117.208937). Accordin ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bitstream Vera
Vera is a digital typeface (computer font) superfamily with a liberal license. It was designed by Jim Lyles from the now-defunct Bitstream Inc. type foundry, and it is closely based on Bitstream Prima, for which Lyles was also responsible. It is a TrueType font with full hinting instructions, which improve its rendering quality on low-resolution devices such as computer monitors. The font has also been repackaged as a Type 1 PostScript font, called ''Bera'', for LaTeX users. Vera consists of serif, sans-serif, and monospace fonts. The Bitstream Vera Sans Mono typeface in particular is suitable for technical work, as it clearly distinguishes "l" (lowercase L) from "1" (one) and "I" (uppercase i), and "0" (zero) from "O" (uppercase o), in similar fashion as Verdana and Tahoma fonts. Bitstream Vera Sans is also the default font used by the Python library Matplotlib to produce plots. Unicode coverage Bitstream Vera itself covers Basic Latin and Latin 1-Supplement letter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vera, Kansas
Vera is a ghost town in Wabaunsee County, Kansas, United States. It was located approximately 3.6 miles east of Paxico near Mill Creek, a tributary to the Kansas River. History Frederick L. Raymond was an early settler. When the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway built a line through the area in 1887, part of it ran through Raymond's farm. Raymond was influential in getting a flag station and post office named "Vera" erected at the location. The residents of Vera paid for a siding to be built, and donated of land on which the flag station, as well as a platform and stock yard, were built. The railway was soon after acquired by the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. In 1893, residents of Vera filed a complaint with the Kansas Board of Railroad Commissioners, claiming the settlement needed a depot and additional storage facilities. They argued that because Vera was separated from its two neighboring rail stations at Paxico and Maple Hill by ranges of hills, it w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vera, Oklahoma
Vera is a town in Washington County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 241 at the 2010 census. History Originally known as Evans, the town was renamed Vera in November 1899 and incorporated in 1904. Vera lies seven miles southeast of Ramona and two miles east of U.S. Highway 75. Vera started out as a farming community, with the chief crops being corn and hay. Lining the railroad track east of town were hay barns and a grain elevator. After many bountiful harvests of the local prairie hay Vera earned the nickname "the Hay Capital of the World." Geography Vera is located at (36.448946, −95.880248). According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all land. Demographics As of the census of 2010, there were 241 people, 84 households, and 56 families residing in the town. The population density was . There were 89 housing units at an average density of 384.4 per square mile (148.6/km2). The racial makeup of the town was 75.1% White, 9.5% ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vera (film)
''Vera'' is a 1986 Brazilian drama film written and directed by Sérgio Toledo. Shot in São Paulo, it stars Ana Beatriz Nogueira, Norma Blum, Raul Cortez and Carlos Kroeber. The film is based on the life of Anderson Bigode Herzer, a transgender man most known as the author of poems book ''A queda para o alto'' (''Descending Upwards''). Plot Anderson (birth name "Vera") is a transsexual man who lives in a correctional facility for young people. After writing a book of verses about his life as a young troubled youth, he meets a benevolent, educated man, who helps him. The man even allows him to spend some time at his home, and arranges for a job for him as an intern in his office. He comes into his gender identity and begins to dress as a man, eventually falling in love with a woman and passing as cisgender to her family. The film succeeds in focusing on Anderson's personality and feelings until his tragic death. Cast * Ana Beatriz Nogueira as Vera * Norma Blum * Raul Cort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
