Trinity (disambiguation)
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Template:Cleanup-date In its general sense, trinity can refer to any collection of three things. More specifically, it refers to:
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Religion
- The Christian Trinity
- Any of many churches called Trinity Church
- The Hindu trinity (Trimurti)
- The Shinto trinity
- The Zoroastrian trinity (Ahura)
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Places
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Europe
- An electoral ward, Sutton Trinity, in Birmingham, England
- A parish of the island of Jersey: Trinity
- A part of Leith near Edinburgh in Scotland
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United States
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Canada
- Trinity, Newfoundland - A town in Newfoundland
- Trinity (electoral district) - A federal electoral district (1933-1987)
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Education
A number of institutions of further education are named Trinity College or Trinity University, or similar variations. The Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Dublin call their summer term the "Trinity Term". Trinity also lends its name to a number of primary and secondary education schools, such as Trinity School of John Whitgift.
Also see Trinity Schools:
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Other things
- The Holy Trinity was a group of shortstops in the 1990's and 2000's playing in Major League Baseball
- The Trinity test, the world's first atomic bomb test on the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range, about 230 miles (370 km) south of the Manhattan Project's main laboratory at Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA (July 16, 1945). Today this 3,200 square mile (8,300 km²) range, partly located in the desolate Jornada del Muerto Valley, is named the White Sands Missile Range.
- An interactive fiction game by Infocom (1986), generally considered to be one of Infocom's best. It takes its title from the nuclear test (see above).
- A novel by Leon Uris based on a fictional Irish family, the "Larkins". See Trinity (novel).
- An album by Sean Paul; see The Trinity (album).
- A river in the U.S. state of Texas, flowing through the city of Dallas and into the Gulf of Mexico: see Trinity River (Texas)
- A cult science-fiction film written and directed by Gary Boulton-Brown. See Trinity (film).
- Stephanie Finochio, a professional wrestler.
- Trinity Guildhall, an examinations board created by the amalgamation of the Trinity and Guildhall examination boards on March 31 2004.
- The case Holy Trinity Church v. United States
- Trinity, a Jamaican singer.
- The Holy Trinity of cooking; a Cajun and Creole tradition of mixing bell peppers, onions and celery.
- Trinity Rescue Kit http://trinityhome.org/trk/
- The Trinity Universe science-fiction role-playing games by White Wolf Game Studio: Adventure!, Aberrant, and Trinity.
- "Wakefield Trinity" is the historic name of a rugby league club, now using the extended name of Wakefield Trinity Wildcats, based in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England.
- The phrase "Holy Trinity" was used in the Season 3 Finale of Arrested Development to descibe a threesome sex act.
- Trinity is the term used by comic book fans in reference to Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman.
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Fictional uses
- Trinity is the central female character in the Matrix trilogy. See Trinity (The Matrix).
- A fictitious small town in the State of South Carolina, USA, the setting for television series American Gothic.
- A game map (TRINITY.WAD) of Trinity College, Cambridge was developed for the computer game Doom.
- In the game X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse, the Trinity is the name of the remaining three of the Stepford Cuckoos who act as sub-bosses in the game. They serve Apocalypse as his main "telepaths".
- Blade: Trinity was a 2004 film about the vampire hunter Blade.
- Trinity a.k.a. the Right Hand of the Devil is a gunslinger hero in a series of spaghetti western films (most notably, They Call Me Trinity and Trinity is Still My Name) played by Terence Hill.
- Trinity Blood, a 2005 anime series by GONZO studio.
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