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| '''''Eureka''''' (or ''''Heureka''''; Greek {{polytonic|εὑρηκα/ηὑρηκα}}) is a famous exclamation attributed to [[Archimedes]], see: [[Eureka (word)]]. | | '''''Eureka''''' is the name of 4 automotive-related companies. |
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| ==Places==
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| <!-- 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. -->
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| Several places are named for the expression:
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| ===In the United States===
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| *[[Eureka, California]]
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| *[[Yreka, California]]
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| *[[Eureka, Illinois]]
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| *[[Eureka, Kansas]]
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| *[[Eureka, Missouri]]
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| *[[Eureka, Montana]]
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| *[[Eureka, Nevada]]
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| *[[Eureka, North Carolina]]
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| *[[Eureka, South Dakota]]
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| *[[Eureka, Utah]]
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| *[[Eureka, Wisconsin]]
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| *[[Eureka Springs, Arkansas]]
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| *[[Eureka Road]], an east-west street in Metro Detroit
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| *[[Eureka Valley]] is two places in California: one a neighborhood in San Francisco; and the other an eastern valley
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| ===In other locations===
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| *[[Eureka, Nunavut]] in Canada
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| *[[Eureka, Nova Scotia]] in Canada
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| *[[Eureka, Transvaal]] in South Africa
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| ==Historical events==
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| *The [[Eureka Flag]] was a potent symbol of the Stockade
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| *The [[Eureka Stockade]], an 1854 goldminers' rebellion in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
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| ==Science and technology==
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| *[[5261 Eureka]], an asteroid co-orbital with Mars
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| *[[EUREKA]], the pan-European research and development inter-governmental initiative
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| *[[Eureka! (computer program)]], a disk-catalogue program for the CP/M operating system
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| *Eureka (Equation Solver), a software package originally marketed by Borland in 1987; also known as Mercury; similar to [[TK Solver]]
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| *[[Eureka (magazine)]], published by the Cambridge University Mathematical Society
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| *[[Eureka! (museum)]], a museum in Halifax, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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| *[[Eureka (OPAC)]], a library search engine developed by RLG
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| *[[Eureka (1890)]], a steam ferryboat now preserved in San Francisco
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| *[[Heureka]], a science centre in Vantaa, Finland
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| *[[Eureka 147]], also known as the Digital Audio Broadasting (DAB) system
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| ==Entertainment==
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| *[[Eureka (1984 film)]], directed by Nicolas Roeg and starred Gene Hackman, Rutger Hauer, Mickey Rourke, and Joe Pesci
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| *[[Eureka (2000 film)]], directed by Shinji Aoyama
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| *[[Eureka (cable network)]], a German cable news network that broadcast in the 1980s
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| *[[Eureka! (computer game)]], a text adventure
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| *[[Eureeka's Castle]], a TV show that ran on Nickelodeon from 1989 to 1995
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| *[[Eureka (Edgar Allan Poe)]], his 1848 prose poem
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| *[[Eureka! (Irish TV)]], an Irish Language quiz show for primary school students, broadcast on RTÉ in the mid-1990s
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| *[[Eureka (Jim O'Rourke album)]] whose title track was featured in the 2000 film
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| *The [[Eureka Maru]] is a fictional starship in the TV series ''Andromeda''
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| *[[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
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| *[[Eureka (online game)]], by Free Fall Associates
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| *[[Eureka! (TV series)]], a 1980s Canadian educational series
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| *[[Eureka (TV series)]], 2006-, shown on the Sci Fi Channel (United States), shown in the UK as ''A Town Called Eureka''
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| *[[Eureka (BBC)]], a 1985 cult BBC TV series pitched at children and concerning science and inventiveness, presented by [[Wilf Lunn]] [http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/titles/eureka.shtml]
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| *[[Characters of Eureka Seven#Eureka|Eureka]], a girl in the anime [[Eureka Seven]], a mecha anime by the studio BONES
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| *"Eureka! A California Adventure Parade" was a parade at [[Disney's California Adventure]] park in 2001-2002
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| ==Other meanings==
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| *[[Eureka beacon]], a type of radio beacon used by Allied pathfinder groups during World War II to guide paratroop units to drop zones
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| *The [[Eureka Tower]] is the world's second-tallest residential building; in Melbourne, Australia
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| *[[Eureka! (bplan competition)]], India's largest business plan competition conducted by [[The Entrepreneurship Cell]], IIT Bombay
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| *[[Eureka (Malayalam magazine)|''Eureka'' (Malayalam magazine)]], a [[Malayalam]] science magazine for children
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| *[[Eureka (1900 automobile)]], an American automobile | | *[[Eureka (1900 automobile)]], an American automobile |
| *[[Eureka (French automobile)]], a French automobile | | *[[Eureka (French automobile)]], a French automobile |
| *[[Eureka (Literary Magazine)]], the literary magazine of [[Eureka College]]
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| *[[Eureka (1907 automobile)]], an American automobile | | *[[Eureka (1907 automobile)]], an American automobile |
| *Eureka (1974 Australian kit car), an Australian automobile | | *[[Eureka (1974 Australian kit car)]], an Australian automobile |
| *Eureka, a non-licensed [[Lineage 2]] game server running at 7X speed at L2-Paradise, voluntarily [http://www.pyromaker.deltaanime.net/l2-paradise.html| closed] when L2Extreme [http://www.lineage2.com/news/news.html#a007871| shut down].
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