Eureka
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Eureka (or 'Heureka'; Greek εὑρηκα/ηὑρηκα) is a famous exclamation attributed to Archimedes, see: Eureka (word).
[edit] Places
Several places are named for the expression:
[edit] In the United States
- Eureka, California
- Yreka, California
- Eureka, Illinois
- Eureka, Kansas
- Eureka, Missouri
- Eureka, Montana
- Eureka, Nevada
- Eureka, North Carolina
- Eureka, South Dakota
- Eureka, Utah
- Eureka Springs, Arkansas
- Eureka Road, an east-west street in Metro Detroit
- Eureka Valley is two places in California: one a neighborhood in San Francisco; and the other an eastern valley
[edit] In other locations
- Eureka, Nunavut in Canada
- Eureka, Nova Scotia in Canada
- Eureka, Transvaal in South Africa
[edit] Historical events
- The Eureka Flag was a potent symbol of the Stockade
- The Eureka Stockade, an 1854 goldminers' rebellion in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
[edit] Science and technology
- 5261 Eureka, an asteroid co-orbital with Mars
- EUREKA, the pan-European research and development inter-governmental initiative
- Eureka! (computer program), a disk-catalogue program for the CP/M operating system
- Eureka (Equation Solver), a software package originally marketed by Borland in 1987; also known as Mercury; similar to TK Solver
- Eureka (magazine), published by the Cambridge University Mathematical Society
- Eureka! (museum), a museum in Halifax, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
- Eureka (OPAC), a library search engine developed by RLG
- Eureka (1890), a steam ferryboat now preserved in San Francisco
- Heureka, a science centre in Vantaa, Finland
[edit] Entertainment
- Eureka (1984 film), directed by Nicolas Roeg and starred Gene Hackman, Rutger Hauer, Mickey Rourke, and Joe Pesci
- Eureka (2000 film), directed by Shinji Aoyama
- Eureka (cable network), a German cable news network that broadcast in the 1980s
- Eureka! (computer game), a text adventure
- Eureeka's Castle, a TV show that ran on Nickelodeon from 1989 to 1995
- Eureka (Edgar Allan Poe), his 1848 prose poem
- Eureka! (Irish TV), an Irish Language quiz show for primary school students, broadcast on RTÉ in the mid-1990s
- Eureka (Jim O'Rourke album) whose title track was featured in the 2000 film
- The Eureka Maru is a fictional starship in the TV series Andromeda
- Eureka (musical), an Australian musical by M.M. Gordon and M. M. Harvey, based on a book by Gale Edwards and John Senczuk, about the 1854 goldminers' uprising
- Eureka (online game), by Free Fall Associates
- Eureka! (TV series), a 1980s Canadian educational series
- Eureka (TV series), shown on the Sci Fi Channel (United States), shown in the UK as A Town Called Eureka
- Eureka, a girl in the anime Eureka Seven, a mecha anime by the studio BONES
- "Eureka! A California Adventure Parade" was a parade at Disney's California Adventure park in 2001-2002
[edit] Other meanings
- Eureka, a 7X Lineage2 server from L2-Paradise
- Eureka beacon, a type of radio beacon used by Allied pathfinder groups during World War II to guide paratroop units to drop zones
- The Eureka Tower is the world's second-tallest residential building; in Melbourne, Australia
- Eureka! (bplan competition), India's largest business plan competition conducted by the Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Bombay
- Eureka (Malayalam magazine), a Malayalam science magazine for children