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Encyclopedia > Minerva (disambiguation)
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Minerva is the Roman goddess of crafts and wisdom, but the name may also refer to: Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 151 languages. ... This article is about the Roman goddess. ...


People

  • Josephine Blatt A.K.A Minerva (c.1869 – 1923), strongwoman
  • Minerva Urecal (1894 – 1966), American film and television actress
  • Minerva Pérez Garrido, aka K.U. Minerva (born 1977), Spanish eurodance singer
    • K.U. Minerva at the Spanish Wikipedia

Minerva Urecal (September 22, 1894 – February 26, 1966) was an American actor whose birth name was Minerva Holzer. ... This article is about a music style. ...

Geography

Minerva is a town in Essex County, New York, United States. ... Minerva is a village located in Carroll, Columbiana, and Stark counties in Ohio. ... Minerva is a locality in Lane County, Oregon, United States. ... The Minerva Reefs are a group of reefs located at 23°23′S 178°58′W in the Pacific Ocean. ... The Republic of Minerva was one of the few modern attempts at creating a sovereign micronation on the reclaimed land of an artificial island. ... Mangareva is the central, and most important island of the Gambier Islands, in French Polynesia. ...

Land development

  • Minerva plc, a major British development company
    • Minerva Building, a skyscraper planned for London's financial district by Minerva plc

Minerva plc is a British developer and property firm co-founded by the millionaire philanthropist Sir David Garrard. ... The Minerva Building is a skyscraper being planned for the eastern edge of Londons main financial district, the City of London. ...

Entertainment

Games

MINERVA: Metastasis MINERVA is an episodic series of single-player mods created by Adam Foster for Valve Corporations Half-Life 2. ...

Manga and anime

  • Minerva, a character from the various Transformers universes
  • Minerva class battleship, a fictional class of space vessels from the anime series Gundam SEED Destiny
  • Minerva X, a female mecha character from the Mazinger Z series
  • Minerva Mink, a character from the Animaniacs series

A human character from Transformers Masterforce, Minerva was one of three human children to use the Transtectors to become Cybertron Headmasters, serving as the teams medic. ... This article is about a fictional ship class from the Cosmic Era timeline of the anime Gundam metaseries. ... Minerva X is a fictional mecha from the anime and manga series Mazinger Z, created by Go Nagai. ... Minerva Mink Minerva Mink is a fictional character in the Warner Bros. ...

Music

Minerva is the first single from American rock band Deftones 4th studio album, Deftones, released in 2003. ... Knuckle Down is a 2005 album by Ani DiFranco. ...

Novels

It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles accessible from a disambiguation page. ... Time Enough for Love is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1973. ... Professor Minerva McGonagall is a fictional character in the Harry Potter book series written by J. K. Rowling. ... Minerva Paradizo is a fictional character from the Artemis Fowl series of books by Irish Author Eoin Colfer and is one of the main antagonists in Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony. ... The Baroque Cycle, a series of books written by Neal Stephenson, appeared in print in 2003 and 2004. ... A World of Difference is a 1990 science fiction novel by Harry Turtledove. ... At the 63rd World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow, August 2005 James Patrick Hogan (born June 27, 1941, London) is a science fiction author. ...

Theatres

The Minerva Theatre is a is a theatre in Calcutta, built in 1893. ...

Journals

  • "Minerva", a section heading in the British Medical Journal
  • Minerva, a triannual magazine for members of the Royal Dublin Society
  • Minerva Medica, an Italian publisher of medical journals and books
  • Minerva (Norwegian journal), a Norwegian journal
  • Mars and Minerva, journal of the Special Air Service Regiment of the British Army, named from the Artists Rifles regimental badge

The British Medical Journal (BMJ) is a medical journal published weekly in the United Kingdom by the British Medical Association (BMA)which published its first issue in 1845. ... The Royal Dublin Society (RDS) was founded in 1731 by members of the Dublin Philosophical Society in their Trinity College Dublin rooms as the Dublin Society. ...

Science and technology

Astronomy and space

  • Uranus, before its name was settled upon in 1850, was proposed to be called Minerva
  • 93 Minerva, an asteroid discovered in 1867
  • Pluto, before its name was decided shortly after its discovery in 1930, was proposed to be called Minerva
  • MINERVA mini-lander, MIcro/Nano Experimental Robot Vehicle for Asteroid, which failed to deploy upon asteroid Itokawa in 2005

For other uses, see Uranus (disambiguation). ... 93 Minerva is a large main belt asteroid. ... For other uses, see Pluto (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Hayabusa (disambiguation). ...

Automotive

1928 Minerva that was owned by Gen. ...

Computing and telecommunication

  • Minerva (QDOS reimplementation), a reimplementation of Sinclair QDOS
  • Minerva Networks, a company that develops video compression technology and broadcast systems
  • Project MINERVA, Mapping the INternet Electronic Resources Virtual Archive, the Library of Congress Web Archive and Preservation Project
  • Minerva, the e-learning platform of Ghent University that uses Dokeos as its course management system
  • Minerva, the electronic registration system of McGill University, Montreal
  • MINERVA, MInisterial NEtwoRk for Valorising Activities in digitisation, a European Union organization concerned with the digitisation of cultural and scientific content

Minerva was a reimplementation of Sinclair QDOS, the built in operating system of the Sinclair QL line of computers. ... Minerva Networks, Inc. ... Ghent University (in Dutch, Universiteit Gent, abbreviated UGent) is one of the three large Flemish universities. ... McGill University is a public co-educational research university located in Montréal, Québec, Canada. ... This article is about the Roman goddess. ...

Medicine

  • Minerva cast, a type of orthopedic cast enclosing the patient's trunk and head

cast A cast is a shell, frequently made from plaster, encasing a limb (or, in some cases, large portions of the body) to hold a broken bone (or bones) in place until it has healed. ...

Physics

  • MINERνA, Main INjector ExpeRiment Neutrino-A, a short-baseline neutrino experiment at Fermilab

Other science and technology

  • Minerva (genus), a genus of prehistoric owls
  • Minerva Medal, an award in the field of design by the Chartered Society of Designers
  • Minerva (watch), a brand of Swiss hand-made watches
  • "Minerva" brand firecracker, a staple of the Easter celebration in Greece
  • La Minerve, a giant ascension balloon envisioned by Étienne-Gaspard Robert in 1820

For other uses, see Owl (disambiguation). ... Logo of the Chartered Society of Designers The Chartered Society of Designers (CSD), headquartered in London, England, is the professional body for designers. ... Étienne-Gaspard Robert (1764-1837), better known by his stage name Étienne Robertson, was a Belgian stage magician and early exploiter of the phantasmagoria. ...

Ships

  • HMS Minerva (disambiguation), eight ships of the British Royal Navy
  • French ship Minerve (disambiguation), fifteen ships of the French navy
  • Minerva (ship), a cruise ship built in 1989
  • Minerva II, a cruise ship launched in 2000

Eight vessels of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Minerva, after the goddess Minerva of Roman mythology. ... Minerva II (formerly R Eight) is a cruise ship operated by Swan Hellenic. ...

Sports

  • Minerva F.C., a 19th century West London soccer team

Soccer redirects here. ...

Other

  • Minerva Central, the name of the first book store in Mozambique
  • The Minerva, oldest pub in Plymouth, England

This article is about the city in England. ...

See also

  • Minerve (disambiguation)
  • French ship Minerve (disambiguation)
Minerve was a french submarine of the daphne class, that went missing off the coast of Toulon on the 27th of January 1968. ... Image File history File links Disambig_gray. ...

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