Argo (disambiguation)

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The name Argo refers primarily to:

• Argo, the ship of Jason and the Argonauts in Greek mythology

but has been used secondarily for:

[edit] Science

• Argo Navis, a constellation representing the mythological ship Argo
• Argo (oceanography), a science project to deploy 3,000 robotic oceanic probes to monitor Earth's oceans

[edit] Ships

• Argo (ship) an Indian ship that disappeared near Tasmania in 1814.
• Argo (1800) an American Schooner shipwrecked in Fiji.
• Argo (1853) first steamship to circumnavigate the earth.
• HMS Argo, the name of five ships of the Royal Navy
• M/V Argo, a research vessel used by the Scripps Oceanographic Research Institute, La Jolla, California, in 1967.
• Argo (submersible), an unmanned submersible used by Robert Ballard to discover the wreck of RMS Titanic

[edit] Vehicles

• Argo (automobile), a defunct American automobile company
• Argo Electric, an electric vehicle built from 1912–16, from Saginaw, Michigan.
• Argo (1863 – 1892), one of the eight South Devon Railway Dido class steam locomotives
• Argo, a six and eight-wheeled amphibious all-terrain vehicle
• Argo is a maker of racing cars
• ARGO, a project to develop a Driverless car, concluded in Italy 2001

[edit] Places

• Argo, Alabama
• Argo, an alternate name for the city of Summit, Illinois
  • Argo Community High School in Summit, Illinois
• Argo, a place near Dongola in Sudan

[edit] Companies

• Argo Investments Ltd, an Australian Listed Investment Company
• Argo Records, a defunct Jazz label subsidiary of Chess Records, based in the United States
• Argo Records (UK), a defunct spoken word record label
• ARGO SpA, Italian company that manufactures or distributes agricultural equipment
• Argo Tea, chicago based Tea shop.
• Argo, a series of fashion shops throughout Britain
• Argo, Czech book publishing company
• ARGO (Analisi e ricerche geografiche sull'Oriente), a think tank on Central Asian and Middle Eastern security based in Rome

[edit] Computing

• Argo (web browser), a web browser developed in 1994 by Bert Bos, which used its own style sheets
• ArgoUML, an open source designing application
• Argo, the code name of Microsoft's Zune

[edit] Sports

• The Toronto Argonauts, a football team and rowing club in Toronto

[edit] Other

• Argo, a design of sounding rocket used in the 1958 Operation Argus, a test of atomic bomb explosions in the upper atmosphere; these rockets reached heights of 800 km
• Argo, an "auto regulating gas operated" system for semi-automatic firearms used by the firm Benelli
• Argo, the Boston Latin School newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts
• Argo, used as the name of a fake science-fiction film based on Lord of Light in a covert CIA rescue operation
• Argo, the George School literary magazine in Newtown, Pennsylvania

[edit] In fiction

• Argo, a fictional spaceship in Star Blazers, the American adaptation of the anime Space Battleship Yamato; corresponding to Yamato in the original
• Argo City, a fictional city on Krypton that is the birthplace of Supergirl
• Argo, a shuttlecraft/all-terrain vehicle in the Star Trek universe; it is stationed on the USS Enterprise E
• Argo, Xena's horse in Xena: Warrior Princess
• Argo the Almighty, is a fictional character who appeared in the Marvel Comics' MC2 series A-Next
• Argo (First Earth), an airship from the D.J. MacHale's First Earth universe
• Argo, The Wanderer's horse from the video game "Shadow of the Colossus"

[edit] See also

• Argus