Mule (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Creatures 2 Culture, arts, fiction 3 Computers, software 4 Places 5 Other uses 6 See also

A mule is a hybrid of a female horse and a male donkey.

Mule can also refer to:

[edit] Creatures

• Mule (bird), hybrids of finch species bred in captivity, such as goldfinch and canary, a term used by cagebird breeders
• Mule (sheep), in British Sheep farming, a cross between a Bluefaced Leicester ram and a fell ewe, especially a Swaledale or Cheviot
• Mule Deer, a deer whose habitat is in the western half of North America
• Twenty mule teams, teams of eighteen mules and two horses attached to large wagons that ferried borax out of Death Valley from 1883 to 1889

[edit] Culture, arts, fiction

• M.U.L.E., a 1983 multiplayer video game
• The Mule (Foundation), a fictional character in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series
• Muffin the Mule, a puppet character in BBC television programmes for children
• Mule Variations, a 1999 album by Tom Waits
• The Taurean Mule, an intermediate ship in the fictional TradeWars 2002 universe
• Francis the Talking Mule, a fictional mule, featured in seven movie comedies in the 1950s
• Gov't Mule, a jam band formed in 1994

[edit] Computers, software

• MULE email, used to attract spam that might be sent to another account
• Mule (software), a Java-based Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) messaging framework [1]
• MULE, the MUltiLingual Extension to Emacs allowing editing text written in multiple languages
• In video games, and in particular in MMORPGs, a mule is a subsidiary character used as a beast of burden

[edit] Places

• Mule Mountains, a north/south running mountain range located in the south-central area of Cochise County, Arizona
• Mule Barn, Oklahoma, a city in the United States
• Mule, Norway, a place in Levanger
• Muleshoe, Texas, a city in the United States

[edit] Other uses

• Mule (smuggling), someone who smuggles contraband onto an airplane or across a national border, either knowingly, unknowingly, or sometimes, aware that they are smuggling, but not knowing what is in what he or she smuggles
• Mule (footwear), a type of shoe or slipper without a back
• Mule (coin), in numismatics a coin or medal minted with obverse and reverse designs not normally seen on the same piece
• Mulesing, an animal husbandry procedure which aims to reduce fly-strike
• Multifunctional Utility/Logistics and Equipment (MULE) vehicle, an autonomous ground vehicle
• 40 acres and a mule, the colloquial term for compensation that was to be awarded to freed American slaves after the Civil War
• 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, the production company of filmmaker Spike Lee
• The Kansas City Mule, a passenger train operated by Amtrak running between St. Louis and Kansas City, Missouri
• Moscow Mule, a cocktail
• Marcel Mule (1901–2001), a classical saxophonist
• The Spinning Mule, a textile spinning technology created by Samuel Compton in 1779 and also known as Compton's mule
• M274 Mule, a 4-wheel drive 1/2 ton military vehicle, Official Nomenclature: U.S. Military M274 Truck, Platform, Utility 1/2 Ton, 4X4
• Development Mule, in the automotive industry, a vehicle equipped with experimental or prototype components for testing by automakers.

[edit] See also

• Mul, a fictional race of humanoids in Dark Sun Dungeons & Dragons setting