Mors
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Mors may refer to:
- Mors (mythology)Mors (mythology)In ancient Roman myth and literature, Mors is the personification of death equivalent to the Greek Thánatos. As the Latin noun for "death", mors, genitive mortis, is of feminine gender, but ancient Roman art is not known to depict Death as a woman. Latin poets, however, are bound by the...
, the personification of death in Roman mythology - Mors, Latin for deathDeathDeath is the permanent termination of the biological functions that sustain a living organism. Phenomena which commonly bring about death include old age, predation, malnutrition, disease, and accidents or trauma resulting in terminal injury....
and is a feminine gender noun - Mors (automobile)Mors (automobile)The Mors automobile factory was an early French car manufacturer. It was one of the first to take part in automobile racing, beginning in 1897, due to the belief of the company founder, Émile Mors, in racing's technical and promotional benefits...
, a French car manufacturer from 1895-1925 - American Mors, Mors vehicles produced under licence in America by the St Louis Car Co.
- Mors (island)Mors (island)Mors or Morsø is a 367.7 km2 land locked island in the shallow sound called Limfjorden in Denmark. As of 1 January 2010, it has a population of 21,800. The main town on the island is called Nykøbing Mors. Geologically Mors is unique...
or Morsø, a Danish island - Mors or MoersMoersMoers is a German city on the left bank of the Rhine. Moers belongs to the district of Wesel...
, a town in Germany - Pistolet maszynowy MorsPistolet maszynowy MorsPistolet maszynowy wz.39 Mors was a Polish submachine gun designed by Piotr Wilniewczyc and Jan Skrzypiński between 1936 and 1938. It was to have become the standard submachine gun of the Polish Army some time in the 1940s...
, a Polish WWII sub-machine gun - Mors, a Russian berry-based drink
- MORS, an acronym for Military Operations Research SocietyMilitary Operations Research SocietyThe Military Operations Research Society is a society for professionals active within defense applications of operations research in the United States...
- Major Harald MorsHarald MorsMajor Otto-Harald Mors , was a battalion commander, with the Fallschirmjäger, who planned and led the Gran Sasso raid to rescue Benito Mussolini, following his arrest in September 1943...
, a battalion commander with the German paratroopers - Captain Mors (fiction), "der Luftpirat," was a fictional German hero from early in the 20th century, appearing in Der Luftpirat und sein Lenkbares LuftschiffDer Luftpirat und sein Lenkbares LuftschiffDer Luftpirat und sein lenkbares Luftschiff was a German dime novel with 165 issues from 1908-1911. The book followed the adventures of Captain Mors, the "Air Pirate"....