Saturday, May 3, 2008

Browsing Wikipedia...

The Vera Companies a fashion brand owned by Manhattan Industries not to be confused with Vera Wang.
VERA videotape format (Vision Electronic Recording Apparatus), an early videotape format
VERA, a Czech passive sensor system
Vera (horse), winner of the 1883 Kentucky Oaks
Bitstream Vera, a family of typefaces
Bulnesia sarmientoi, a tree species native to the Gran Chaco area in South America
The female yellow monster Vera, a character on Barrio Sésamo
The archbishop of Tarragona, Vera, ca. 693, who assisted personally to the Sixteenth (693) and Seventeenth (694) Councils of Toledo
"Vera" is the name of fictional character Jayne Cobb's favorite gun.
The Vera Project, an all ages music-based, non-profit organization in Seattle, Washington
OpenVera, a hardware verification language
The Vienna Environmental Research Accelerator, a particle accelerator dedicated to Accelerator mass spectrometry.

245 Vera, an asteroid

They even named an asteroid after me. No way.