Casper
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[edit] People
- Casper (name)
- Drew Casper, an award-winning Professor of Critical Studies in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California.
- Caspar Badrutt, Swiss businessman who virtually invented and popularized winter alpine resorts and consequently several winter sports.
- Caspar Weinberger, an American politician and Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan.
- Caspar, one of the Three Biblical Magi (or Three Wise Men) derived from the Persian for treasurer, who presents a gift of gold.
- A king of the Mayan ciy of Palenque.
[edit] Software
- One of three parts of the biocomputer located in NERV's First Branch in the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion — see Neon Genesis Evangelion glossary
- CASPAR digital preservation project A project about digital preservation, full name "Cultural, Artistic and Scientific knowledge for Preservation, Access and retrieval"
- A software package that allows initramfs-based Linux systems to boot from read-only media (https://launchpad.net/products/casper)
[edit] Other
- Casper the Friendly Ghost, a 20th-century cartoon character
- Casper (video game), a 1996 video game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and the Super Famicom featuring Casper the Friendly Ghost
- Casper (film), a 1995 movie featuring Casper the Friendly Ghost
- Casper (skateboarding trick), a freestyle skateboarding trick ostensibly named in honor of the cartoon character
- Casper, Wyoming, a city.
- Center for Astronomy Signal Processing and Electronics Research (CASPER), an astronomy research group at the University of California, Berkeley
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