Eureka

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Eureka (or 'Heureka'; Greek εὑρηκα/ηὑρηκα) is a famous exclamation attributed to Archimedes, see: Eureka (word).

[edit] Places

Several places are named for the expression:

[edit] In the United States

• Eureka, California
• Yreka, California
• Eureka, Illinois
• Eureka, Kansas
• Eureka, Missouri
• Eureka, Montana
• Eureka, Nevada
• Eureka, North Carolina
• Eureka, South Dakota
• Eureka, Utah
• Eureka Springs, Arkansas
• Eureka Road, an east-west street in Metro Detroit
• Eureka Valley is two places in California: one a neighborhood in San Francisco; and the other an eastern valley

[edit] In other locations

• Eureka, Nunavut in Canada
• Eureka, Nova Scotia in Canada
• Eureka, Transvaal in South Africa

[edit] Historical events

• The Eureka Flag was a potent symbol of the Stockade
• The Eureka Stockade, an 1854 goldminers' rebellion in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

[edit] Science and technology

• 5261 Eureka, an asteroid co-orbital with Mars
• EUREKA, the pan-European research and development inter-governmental initiative
• Eureka! (computer program), a disk-catalogue program for the CP/M operating system
• Eureka (Equation Solver), a software package originally marketed by Borland in 1987; also known as Mercury; similar to TK Solver
• Eureka (magazine), published by the Cambridge University Mathematical Society
• Eureka! (museum), a museum in Halifax, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
• Eureka (OPAC), a library search engine developed by RLG
• Eureka (1890), a steam ferryboat now preserved in San Francisco
• Heureka, a science centre in Vantaa, Finland

[edit] Entertainment

• Eureka (1984 film), directed by Nicolas Roeg and starred Gene Hackman, Rutger Hauer, Mickey Rourke, and Joe Pesci
• Eureka (2000 film), directed by Shinji Aoyama
• Eureka (cable network), a German cable news network that broadcast in the 1980s
• Eureka! (computer game), a text adventure
• Eureeka's Castle, a TV show that ran on Nickelodeon from 1989 to 1995
• Eureka (Edgar Allan Poe), his 1848 prose poem
• Eureka! (Irish TV), an Irish Language quiz show for primary school students, broadcast on RTÉ in the mid-1990s
• Eureka (Jim O'Rourke album) whose title track was featured in the 2000 film
• The Eureka Maru is a fictional starship in the TV series Andromeda
• Eureka (musical), an Australian musical by M.M. Gordon and M. M. Harvey, based on a book by Gale Edwards and John Senczuk, about the 1854 goldminers' uprising
• Eureka (online game), by Free Fall Associates
• Eureka! (TV series), a 1980s Canadian educational series
• Eureka (TV series), shown on the Sci Fi Channel (United States), shown in the UK as A Town Called Eureka
• Eureka, a girl in the anime Eureka Seven, a mecha anime by the studio BONES
• "Eureka! A California Adventure Parade" was a parade at Disney's California Adventure park in 2001-2002

[edit] Other meanings

• Eureka, a 7X Lineage2 server from L2-Paradise
• Eureka beacon, a type of radio beacon used by Allied pathfinder groups during World War II to guide paratroop units to drop zones
• The Eureka Tower is the world's second-tallest residential building; in Melbourne, Australia
• Eureka! (bplan competition), India's largest business plan competition conducted by the Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Bombay
• Eureka (Malayalam magazine), a Malayalam science magazine for children

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