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Doria (family)

Doria, originally de Auria (from de filiis Auriae), meaning "the sons of Auria", and then de Oria or d'Oria, is the name of an old and extremely wealthy Genoese family who played a major role in the history of the Republic of Genoa and in Italy, from the 12th century to the 16th century.

Dória

Matheus Dória Macedo (born 8 November 1994), commonly known as Dória, is a Brazilian footballer who plays for French club Marseille as a central defender.

Doria (opera)

Doria, ou La tyrannie détruite (Doria, or Tyranny Destroyed) is an opera in three acts by the French composer Étienne Méhul. It is in the form of an opéra comique (that is, with spoken dialogue between the musical numbers), although the authors style it an opéra héroïque. It premiered at the Opéra-Comique, Paris on 12 March 1795. The libretto is by Gabriel-Marie Legouvé and Charles-Joseph Lœuillard Davrigny. The work was not a success, in spite of revisions after the premiere.

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Men sometimes got disoriented or ran out of air or lost their minds from narcosis and died on the Doria.

He remembers, even under narcosis, that perhaps three-quarters of all divers who have perished on the Andrea Doria died with a bag full of prizes.

Lieutenant Prasad excelled in Torminel-style wrestling at the Doria Academy?

And arms were another speciality of the duke, who had already purchased cannons and shot from Doria.

Navarre was delivered in this way, and we also have records of the birth of the celebrated Doge, Andreas Doria, by this method.

He could make a half dozen trips to the Doria every year, then use his free time to search for the Carolina, Texel, Norness, and Pan Pennsylvania great ships still missing decades after sinking.

Nagle had envisioned his business as an endless series of trips to deep and dangerous wrecks like the Doria or the Choapa.

Listed under trips for August was a name that stopped him: Andrea Doria.

They would replace Lloyd Garrick, who took some time off from diving shortly after the incident, and Dick Shoe, who remained willing to dive the Doria and other deadly wrecks but vowed never to return to something so dangerous as this submarine.

Skiffs were still being sighted all over the place, and here and there were being chased by New Babylonian jet fighters or zapped by New Babylonian space-based plasma cannon, to the evident annoyance of every other power from Illyria to Doria.

Doria, Richard blushes before the vision of Lucy, and Ralph, whose heroine's hair is a dark luxuriance, dissents, and claims a noble share in the slaughter of men for darkhaired Wonders.

Try to persuade a couple of the Guild-sisters to come along, too—not goody-goodies like Doria or Keitha, but someone who can travel hard, live rough, chew leather and take orders.

Just as suddenly he regained control of his body, floated in place for a moment, then jackknifed in a dive that took him back through the hole into the innards of the Andrea Doria.

The Swedish ship's reinforced bow pierced the metal skin of the speeding Andrea Doria as easily as a bayonet, penetrating almost a third of the liner's ninetyfoot width before it came to rest.