Eureka

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

Place names

Several places are named for the expression:

• Eureka, California and Yreka, California, in the United States
• Eureka, Illinois, in the United States
• Eureka, Kansas, in the United States
• Eureka, Missouri, in the United States
• Eureka, Montana, in the United States
• Eureka, Nevada, in the United States
• Eureka, South Dakota, in the United States
• Eureka, Utah, in the United States
• Eureka Springs, Arkansas, in the United States
• Eureka, Nunavut in Canada
• Eureka, Victoria in Australia
• Eureka, North Carolina, in the United States

More than one of these places are or were involved in the gold mining industry, with the phrase 'I found it' having an obvious connection.

Other meanings

• Eureka! A California Adventure Parade was a parade at Disney's California Adventure park in 2001-2002.
• 5261 Eureka is the name of an asteroid co-orbital with Mars. (see also 3753 Cruithne)
• EUREKA is the name of the European Union's research and development organization.
• The Eureka Stockade was an Australian miners' revolt in 1854.
• Eureka is the name of an online game developed by Free Fall Associates.
• Eureka is an 1848 prose poem by Edgar Allan Poe
• Eureka is a 1984 movie starring Gene Hackman, Rutger Hauer, Mickey Rourke, Joe Pesci.
  • Eureka is an album by Jim O'Rourke named after the film.
• Eureka is an Australian musical by Maggie May Gordon and Michael Maurice Harvey, based on a book by Gale Edwards and John Senczuk, about the 1854 goldminers' uprising in the regional boom town of Ballarat.
• Eureka is an 1890 built steam ferryboat now preserved in San Francisco, California.
• Eureka is a television series due to premiere in 2006 on the Sci Fi Channel (United States).
• The Eureka Tower is a skyscraper in the city of Melbourne, Australia.
• Eureka Valley is also the name of two places in California: one a neighborhood in San Francisco and the other a valley in the eastern part of the state.
• The Eureka Maru is a fictional starship in the television series Andromeda.
• Eureka is a brand of vacuum cleaner.
• Eureka! is a museum near Halifax, UK.
• Eureka! is a text adventure for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum.
• Heureka is a science centre in Vantaa, Finland.
• Eureka is an OPAC (library search engine) developed by RLG.
• Eureka is a magazine published by the Cambridge University Mathematical Society.
• Eureeka's Castle was a TV show that ran on Nickelodeon from 1989 to 1995.
• Eureka Seven is a mecha anime by the studio Bones.
• Eureka beacon is a type of radio beacon used by Allied pathfinder groups during World War II to guide paratroop units to drop zones.
• Eureka is a 7X Lineage2 server from L2-Paradise <- Best GM there is PrincessChaos
• Eureka is a large buy and sell advertisement newspaper in Montreal

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