What's Mora after all???

Mora is, apparently a child with many faces. If you say 'Mora' around the world, it can mean many different things.

We find that it is often a town. There are a few, one in Spain, one in Portugal and one in Cameroon. Mora Canton is in Costa Rica, in India we find a Mora outside Mumbai and a Mora Industrial Estate, an industrial area in the Prem Nagar Export Zone. In Paraguay we have Fernando de la Mora which is the only fully fledged city as far as I can tell. Back in Spain we find a Mora de Rubielos.

In New Mexico, we have a Mora, a Mora County as well as Mora River. And in Minnesota we have a Mora, with Dala Horse and all.

Also lots of prominent people were called Mora. F. Luis Mora was an artist and illustrator, Ferenc Mora an Hungarian writer Georges was some entrepreneur from Germany. Father/son set up of Jim E and Jim L were head coaches around different NFL teams while plain Jim Mora was a broadcaster in New Zeeland. Jo Mora was an artist in Uruguay, Melvin played baseball in Venezuela and Mirka was another artist.

In Spain, we find José Francisco Mora Altava, known as Pepe Mora playing football (proper football, not American thingee). In America's Next Top Model, we notice that Naima Mora won the fourth series while old Nestor was a Colombian cyclist. Philippe made films, Sergio was boxing and Tiriel was mainly acting. There were two famous Victor Mora's - one was a comic book autor, while the other was a Colombian long distance runner.

Could you be more specific please?

Then we must not forget the fish Mora. In aviation MORA means Minimum Off Route Altitude and in Costa Rica it is a type of blackberry juice drink. There are also several units of Mora; it could either be a unit of sound used in phonology or a unit of about 600 soldiers in the Spartan Army. In Mora you can also buy Music online from Sony. In Polish mythology, we find Mora are the souls of living people that leave the body during the night. A little bit freaky, but hey... Why not!

We also have the plant Mora in the Fabaceae family. The flagship of William the Conqueror's fleet was also named Mora, and a villain in Power Rangers is also named Mora.

In Sweden you will find Mora stenar where ancient kings were elected. you'll also find Mora municipality, the home of the Mora knife and the Mora clock as well as the home of Mora IK ice hockey club.

Later tonight we will however find out what it really means and what it is made of.