Prospero (disambiguation)

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There are a number of things named Prospero:

Contents 1 Literature and culture 2 Science and nature 3 Technology 4 People 5 See also

[edit] Literature and culture

• Prospero, the protagonist in The Tempest, a play by William Shakespeare.
• Prospero is also the protagonist of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death".
• The Prospero is a ship in A Series of Unfortunate Events.
• Prospero, former homeworld to the Thousand Sons Legion of Space Marines in Warhammer 40,000.
• Prospero, a Canadian Industrial/Noise band.
• Prospero's Cell is a book by Lawrence Durrell.
• Prospero is the in-house magazine for retired BBC staff, named after the statue of Shakespeare's Prospero at Broadcasting House.

[edit] Science and nature

• Prospero, the name of a moon of the planet Uranus.
• Prospero, a genus of plants in the family Hyacinthaceae.
• The Prospero X-3, a satellite launched by the United Kingdom in 1971.
• Prospero, a protein regulating the cell fate in the development of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster neuroblasts. It interacts with an adaptor protein that has been dubbed Miranda (Wodarz A. 2005 in Curr. Opin. Cell Biol. 17, 475-481).

[edit] Technology

• Prospero, a global file system based on the Virtual System Model, and the protocol used to implement the file system. Some browsers include support to access Prospero file system files using URL-like constructs.
• Prospero, a directory protocol utilized by archie servers and clients in later years.

[edit] People

• San Prospero is an Italian saint (see Prosper of Reggio)

[edit] See also

• Prosper