Minerva (disambiguation)

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Minerva most often refers to:

• Minerva, the Roman goddess of crafts and wisdom.

Minerva may also refer to:

Contents 1 Locations 2 Technology, Economy etc. 3 Popular Culture 4 Historically 5 Other

[edit] Locations

• Several towns in the USA:
  • Minerva, Ohio
  • Minerva, New York
  • Minerva, Oregon
• Minerva Reefs the name of two submerged atolls halfway between Tonga and New Zealand.
  • The Principality of Minerva, a self-declared South Pacific principality on these reefs.
• Recif de la Minerve, an other submerged atolls in French Polynesia near Mangareva.
• 93 Minerva, an asteroid.
• Minerva was one of the proposed names for the planet Uranus after it was discovered by William Herschel, but was not widely adopted.

[edit] Technology, Economy etc.

• Minerva, a tiny mini-spacecraft (only 519 g) to have been deployed on the surface of asteroid Itokawa.
• Minerva plc, a major British development company.
  • Minerva Building, a major new skyscraper planned for London's financial district by Minerva plc.
• Minerva, a brand of automobile.
• Minerva cast, a type of orthopedic cast enclosing the patient's trunk and head. plaster cast.
• Minerva, a brand of watch manufactured in Italy.
• Minerva, a reimplementation of the Sinclair QDOS computer operating system.
• Minerva, a former Greek company that used to manufactures corn oil and butter.
• Minerva, the name of the e-learning platform of Ghent University that uses Dokeos as its course management system.
• Project MINERVA (Mapping the INternet Electronic Resources Virtual Archive) was established by the Library of Congress to collect and preserve primary source materials which are colloquially described as "born digital" and which do not exist in any physical form.
• Minerva Works An independent group of people who dedicate their time to making Alternate reality game.
• Two cruise ships operated by Swan Hellenic
  • Minerva
  • ''Minerva II

[edit] Popular Culture

• Minerva, a fictional class of space vessels from the anime series Gundam SEED Destiny.
• The Transformers toy Nightbeat was repainted and released as Minerva in Japan.
• Professor Minerva McGonagall, a fictional character in the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling.
• "Minerva", a song by Deftones.
• Minerva is a fictional planet in the book A World of Difference by Harry Turtledove. It replaces Mars but is much bigger.
• In James P. Hogan's Giants series, Minerva is the name of the 5th planet which held an advanced civilization in the distant past but eventually was destroyed forming the asteroid belt (and Pluto).
• Minerva is a conscious computer character in Robert A. Heinlein's science fiction novel Time Enough for Love.
• "Minerva" is the name of a ship, truly named after Eliza, that one could say is a supporting character in Neal Stephenson's The Baroque Cycle.
• The Duck of Minerva is a blog about international politics.
• [1] Minerva is the famous oldest Dutch student union
• Minerva is the name of real-life character in John Berendt's book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. She is also depicted in the movie version of the book. [2]
• Minerva X is a female mecha from the Mazinger Z series.
• Minerva Mink, a character from the Animaniacs series.
• Minerva Paradizo, a girl genius from the series Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer.

[edit] Historically

• HMS Minerva or HMS Minerve has been the name of eight ships of the British Royal Navy

[edit] Other

• MINERVA (MInisterial NEtwoRk for Valorising Activities in digitisation), a European governmental organization concerned with the digitisation of cultural and scientific content.
• Minerva, a genus of protostrigid prehistoric owls
• MINERvA[3] (Main INjector ExpeRiment Neutrino-A), a project at the Fermilab National Accelerator facility related to the MINOS neutrino oscillation experiments, which themselves are an attempt to measure neutrino mass.
• The third-party MINERVA modification for the Half-Life 2 computer game.
• An arts and culture magazine.[4]
• An Internet journal of philosophy.[5]