Female name

• Greek name, short for Theodora, meaning "Gift of God"
• 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" in 1901
• Dora (singer), a singer who represented Portugal in the 1986 and 1988 Eurovision Song Contests
• Dora the Explorer, animation series about a young child who goes on adventures with a talking monkey named Boots, backpack, map and many small insects

Space

• Asteroid 668 Dora

Music

• HRT Dora, pop festival that serves as the Croatian national preselection for the Eurovision Song Contest

War history

• Mittelbau-Dora, World War II concentration camp
• Fw 190 D "Dora", a model of Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter aircraft
• Dora (artillery), 80cm railway artillery pieces constructed by the Krupp company for Nazi Germany during World War II;
• DORA 1 and DORA 2, U-boat bunkers in Trondheim, Norway
• DORA, the Defence of the Realm Act 1914, passed in Britain in August 1914

Geographic locations

• Dora (Baghdad), a major neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq
• Dora, Lebanon, a suburb of BeirutAustralia
• Lake Dora (Tasmania)
• Lake Dora (Western Australia)United States
• Dora, Alabama
• Dora, Arkansas
• Dora, New MexicoItaly

Two rivers, tributaries of the Po River, from the Celtic "duria", meaning water:

• Dora Baltea
• Dora Riparia

Engineering

• The EV-DO Revision A standard, abbreviated DOrA

Other

• Hurricane Dora, a 1964 hurricane, the first and last to hit Jacksonville, Florida
• The Dora Mavor Moore Award for Canadian professional theatre
• Dora, a minor character in the webcomic Erfworld

See also

• Doralice, a female first name

The law was designed to help prevent invasion and to keep morale at home high. It imposed censorship of journalism and of letters coming home from the front line. The media could only report officially sanctioned propaganda: the war effort was proceeding perfectly, the Germans were brutes, and the British were heroes. DORA also gave the Government power to take over land and factories for war production.

Though some provisions of DORA may seem strange, they did have their purposes. Flying a kite or lighting a bonfire could attract Zeppelins, and after rationing was introduced in 1917, feeding wild animals was a waste of food. The first person to be arrested under DORA was John Maclean, a Marxist and Clydeside revolutionary, for uttering statements deemed prejudiced against recruiting. He was fined £5 but refused and spent five nights in prison. Here is an excerpt of the Act:

Be it enacted ... as follows:

(1) His Majesty in Council has power during the continuance of the present war to issue regulations for securing the public safety and the defence of the realm, and as to the powers and duties for that purpose of the Admiralty and Army Council and of the members of His Majesty's forces and other persons acting in his behalf; and may by such regulations authorise the trial by courts-martial, or in the case of minor offences by courts of summary jurisdiction, and punishment of persons committing offences against the regulations and in particular against any of the provisions of such regulations designed:

* (a) to prevent persons communicating with the enemy or obtaining information for that purpose or any purpose calculated to jeopardise the success of the operations of any of His Majesty's forces or the forces of his allies or to assist the enemy; or

* (b) to secure the safety of His Majesty's forces and ships and the safety of any means of communication and of railways, ports, and harbours; or

* (c) to prevent the spread of false reports or reports likely to cause disaffection to His Majesty or to interfere with the success of His Majesty's forces by land or sea or to prejudice His Majesty's relations with foreign powers; or

* (d) to secure the navigation of vessels in accordance with directions given by or under the authority of the Admiralty; or

* (e) otherwise to prevent assistance being given to the enemy or the successful prosecution of the war being endangered.

(3) It shall be lawful for the Admiralty or Army Council:

* (a) to require that there shall be placed at their disposal the whole or any part of the output of any factory or workshop in which arms, ammunition, or warlike stores and equipment, or any articles required for the production thereof, are manufactured;

* (b) to take possession of, and use for the purpose of, His Majesty's naval or military service any such factory or workshop or any plant thereof;

Related Acts

At the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 a similar act was passed, the Emergency Powers (Defence) Act 1939.

External links

• Spartacus: DORA