Calico

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Calico may refer to:

Contents 1 General 2 Business 3 Entertainment 4 People 5 Places

[edit] General

• Calico (textile), a cheap textile made from unbleached, and often not fully processed, cotton
• Calico, any animal with skin or fur in shades of orange/red, white, and black
  • Atlantic calico scallop, exterior appeance of upper (left) valve has coloration of dark yellow or pink with striking combinations of red in stripes or blotches
  • Calico (fish), a color pattern of many breeds of goldfish
  • Jaguar, a New World mammal (one of four "big cats") of the Felidae family
  • Pinto horse, a horse coat color that consists of large patches of white and another color
  • Tortoiseshell cat, describes a coloring found in cats caused by a combination of specific genetic traits

[edit] Business

• Calico Light Weapons Systems, a small firearms manufacturing company currently based in Hillsboro, Oregon
• Calico Liberty, a roller-delayed blowback-operated semi-automatic rifle or pistol
  • Calico M100, a blowback operated semi-automatic rifle/carbine (M100)
  • Calico M100P, a semi-automatic pistol
  • Calico M960, 9mm semi-automatic gun

[edit] Entertainment

• A Gal in Calico, a 1946 song by American composer Arthur Schwartz, words written by Leo Robin
• Calico (band), an eclectic folk-rock band from Atlanta, Georgia
• Calico Captive (1957), Elizabeth George Speare's first historical fiction children's novel
• Calico Skies, a song first recorded by Paul McCartney in 1992
• Calico Sunset, a Bakersfield-based christian electro-pop band
• Calico System, a hardcore/metal band from St. Louis, Missouri
• The Ballad of Calico, the eighth studio album by Kenny Rogers and the First Edition
• U.S.S Calico, a fictional research submarine featured in The Godzilla Power Hour.

[edit] People

• Calico Cooper (born 1981), American actress and the daughter of rock and roll musician Alice Cooper
• Calico Jack Rackham (died 1720), English pirate captain in the early 18th century
• Tyrone Calico (born 1980), American football wide receiver

[edit] Places

• Calico Mountains, located just north of Interstate 15 in the Mojave Desert, California
  • Calico, California, a ghost town located in the Mojave Desert region of Southern California
  • Calico and Odessa Railroad, a heritage railway in the ghost town of Calico, California
• Calico Early Man Site, a possible archaeological site 15 miles NE of Barstow, California
• Calico Mills, one of Ahmedabad’s (India) earliest textile mills established in 1880
  • Calico Museum of Textiles, in the city of Ahmedabad, state of Gujarat in western India
• Calico Rock, Arkansas, a city in Izard County, United States
• Ghost Town & Calico Railway, a tourist railroad within Knott's Berry Farm, a theme park in Buena Park, California