Columbia

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Contents 1 Places in North America 2 Other places in the U.S. 3 Well-known companies 4 Educational institutions 5 Technology 6 Vehicles 7 Railroad passenger trains 8 Fictional uses 9 Songs 10 Other 11 Related terms 12 See also

For the country in South America, see Colombia.

Columbia is the original name for the United States and inspired the names of many things. For the original Columbia, see Historical Columbia.

[edit] Places in North America

• Columbia River
• British Columbia
• District of Columbia
• Mount Columbia (Colorado)
• Mount Columbia (Alberta)
• Columbia Glacier (Alaska)
• Columbia Glacier (Washington)
• Columbia Peak in the state of Washington
• Columbia Icefield in Alberta and British Columbia

U.S. cities or towns

• Columbia, South Carolina, the state capital
• Columbia, Connecticut
• Columbia, California
• Columbia, Illinois
• Columbia, Louisiana
• Columbia, Maryland
• Columbia, Mississippi
• Columbia, Missouri
• Columbia, New Hampshire
• Columbia, New Jersey
• Columbia, New York
• Columbia, North Carolina
• Columbia, Pennsylvania
• Columbia, Tennessee
• Columbia, Virginia

[edit] Other places in the U.S.

• Columbia Beach, Washington
• Columbia Center, New York
• Columbia Center, Ohio
• Columbia City, Indiana
• Columbia City, Oregon
• Columbia County, Arkansas
• Columbia County, Georgia
• Columbia County, New York
• Columbia County, Oregon
• Columbia County, Pennsylvania
• Columbia County, Washington
• Columbia Cross Roads, Pennsylvania
• Columbia Heights, Minnesota
• Columbia Heights, Oregon
• Columbia Heights, Washington, DC
• Columbia Station, Ohio
• Columbia Township, Jackson County, Michigan
• Columbia Township, Tuscola County, Michigan
• Columbia Township, Van Buren County, Michigan
• Columbia Valley Gardens, Washington

[edit] Well-known companies

• Columbia Aircraft
• Columbia Automobile Company
• Columbia Bicycles
• Columbia Management Group
• Columbia Pictures
• Columbia Broadcasting System, which became CBS
• Columbia Records
• Columbia Sportswear
• Columbia University Press, publisher of the Columbia Encyclopedia

[edit] Educational institutions

• Columbia University
• any of several Columbia Colleges
• Columbia Theological Seminary
• Columbia School of Broadcasting

[edit] Technology

• Columbia Nuclear Generating Station in Washington
• Columbia (supercomputer), a NASA supercomputer

[edit] Vehicles

• Space shuttle Columbia, which disintegrated during reentry in 2003
• the Apollo 11 Command/Service Module
• USS Columbia, several ships of the US Navy
• Airplane piloted by Clarence Duncan Chamberlin when he was the second person to solo across the Atlantic
• HMS Columbia, several ships of the Royal Navy
• The type 2-4-2 railroad locomotive is called a Columbia in the Whyte notation
• Columbia automobile, Hartford, Connecticut, United States (1893-1917)
• Lightship Columbia, WLV-604. The first lightship on the Pacific Coast of the United States.

[edit] Railroad passenger trains

• Columbian (B&O), a former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad train between Jersey City, New Jersey and Chicago, Illinois
• Columbian (passenger train), a former Milwaukee Road train between Chicago and Tacoma

[edit] Fictional uses

• a spaceship in Wally Wood's comic story Dark Side of the Moon, published in 1950
• Columbia (NX-02), a fictional starship on the television series Star Trek: Enterprise
• a character in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, played by "Little" Nell Campbell
• a song by Paul van Dyk on "Out There And Back"
• Columbia Airlines fictional airline from Airport 1975
• a Battlestar from both the original and the re-imagined versions of the Battlestar Galactica T.V show

[edit] Songs

• Columbia, Gem of the Ocean, an historical patriotic song still occasionally sung in the U.S./ by Americans
• Columbia (song), a song on the 1994 Oasis album Definitely Maybe
• Hail, Columbia, currently, the official anthem of the Vice President and historically, was an early anthem of the United States
• Roll on Columbia, a 1941 popular song by Woody Guthrie about the Columbia River

[edit] Other

• Columbia Station, a station on the Vancouver SkyTrain.

[edit] Related terms

• Columbiad, a type of large-caliber cannon from the 19th century
• Columba (constellation)
• Niobium, an element formerly named Columbium
• Columbia (supercontinent).
• Saint Columba
• Saint Columbanus

[edit] See also

• The Columbian Orator.