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*[[Vera (given name)]], a given name (including a list of people and fictional characters with the name)
**Vera ({{fl.|693–694}}), archbishop of the [[archdiocese of Tarragona]]
* Vera, stage name of [[Heidi Puurula]] (born 1971), Finnish musician
 
== Places ==
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*[[Cape Vera]], Nunavut, Canada, an uninhabited headland on Devon Island
*[[Vera, Croatia]], a village
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*[[Vera, Georgia]], a neighborhood in Mtatsminda-Krtsanisi District, [[Tbilisi]]
*[[Vera, Italy]], a ''frazione'' in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Veneto
*[[Vera, Norway]], a village in the municipality of Verdal in Trøndelag county, Norway
 
==Arts and entertainment==
==Entertainment==
===Film and television===
*''[[Vera; or, The Nihilists]]'', an 1882 play by Oscar Wilde
* [[Vera (album1986 film)|''Vera'' (album1986 film)]], bya CrookedBrazilian Colours,drama 2017film
*[[Vera (song2022 film)|"''Vera"'' (song2022 film)]], aan 1979Austrian-Italian song by Pink Floyd from ''The Wall''docudrama
*[[Vera (novelTV series)|''Vera'' (novelTV series)]], a 1921 novel by ElizabethBritish vondetective Arnimseries
 
*[[Vera (film)|''Vera'' (film)]], a 1987 film about Sandra Mara Herzer
===Literature===
*''[[Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)]]'', Pulitzer-Prize winning biography on [[Véra Nabokov]]
*''[[Vera; or, The Nihilists]]'', an 18821883 play by Oscar Wilde
*[[Vera (TV series)|''Vera'' (TV series)]], a British detective television series
*[[Vera (von Arnim novel)|''Vera'' (von Arnim novel)]], a 1921 novel by Elizabeth von Arnim
*[[Vera (Edgarian novel)|''Vera'' (Edgarian novel)]], a 2021 novel by Carol Edgarian
*''[[Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)]]'', Pulitzer-Prizea winning1999 biography onby [[VéraStacy NabokovSchiff]]
 
===Music===
*''Vera'', a 2017 album by [[Crooked Colours]]
*[[Vera (song)|"Vera" (song)]], a 1979 song by Pink Floyd
 
== Other uses ==
*[[Avro Lancaster FM213]], known as VeRA
*[[Vision Electronic Recording Apparatus]], an early videotape recording system
*[[VERA passive sensor]], a Czech passive sensor system
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*[[Vera (horse)]], winner of the 1883 [[Kentucky Oaks]]
*[[Vera (Groningen)]], a pop center in the city of Groningen, see [[music venues in the Netherlands]]
*[[Vera C. Rubin Observatory]], an [[Astronomy|astronomical]] [[observatory]] currently under construction in Chile
*The VERA Project (VLBI Exploration of Radio Astronomy), of the [[National Astronomical Observatory of Japan]]
*"Veras" or "Vera Lynns", cockney rhyming slang for "skins" (cigarette [[rolling paper]]s)
 
==See also==
* [[OpenVera]], a hardware verification language
* [[Tropical Storm Vera]]
* [[Veras]]
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* [[Ver (disambiguation)]]
* {{in title}}
* [[VeraCrypt]], a free and open source encryption software forked from [[TrueCrypt]].
 
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