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Encyclopedia > Spartan
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Spartan may refer to:

Sparta (Doric: Spártā, Attic: Spártē) is a city in southern Greece. ... The hoplite was a heavy infantryman that was the central focus of warfare in Ancient Greece. ... The Spartan apple is an apple cultivar developed by Dr. R.C Palmer in 1926 at the Canadian Apple Research Station in Summerland, British Columbia, now known as the Pacific Agri-food Research Centre - Summerland. ... A manual alphabet is a system of representing all the letters of an alphabet, using only the hands. ...

Popular culture

  • John Spartan, the male lead character in the 1990s movie Demolition Man
  • Spartan (comics), a Wildstorm comic book character
  • Spartan (film), written and directed by David Mamet and starring Val Kilmer
  • Spartan Federation, a faction in the PC game Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
  • Spartan (game)
  • Spartan: Total Warrior, a video game for the PS2, Xbox, and GameCube platforms blah
  • SPARTAN-II Project, a super soldier project in the Halo video game series
  • SPARTAN-III Project, the next-generation super soldier project after SPARTAN-II.

The character John Spartan (played by Sylvester Stallone) is the main protagonist in the movie Demolition Man which takes place in San Angeles in the year 2032. ... Spartan is a fictional character in the Wildstorm universe. ... Spartan film poster Spartan is an action-adventure/political thriller film written and directed by David Mamet. ... Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri (sometimes abbreviated to SMAC or Alpha Centauri) is a 4X turn-based strategic computer game created by Brian Reynolds and Sid Meier under the auspices of Firaxis Games in 1999. ... Spartan is a strategic computer game developed by Slitherine Software in 2004. ... The SPARTAN-II supersoldier project is part of the fictional Halo universe storyline. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Sports

The Michigan State Spartans are the athletic teams that represent Michigan State University. ... The San Jose State Spartans are the name of the athletic teams representing San Jose State University. ...

Technology

Spartan is a molecular modelling application from Wavefunction, Inc. ... The Spartan series of low cost Field-programmable gate arrays from Xilinx, Inc. ...

Vehicles

FV103 Spartan is a British Army armoured personnel carrier. ... Launch of a Spartan The Spartan, designation LIM-49A, was a United States Army anti-ballistic missile. ... The Simmonds Spartan is a 1920s British two-seat biplane trainer/tourer aircraft built by Simmonds Aircraft Limited. ... Alenia Aeronautica (formerly Aeritalia) is an aerospace engineering corporation in Italy, a subisidary of Finmeccanica. ... The Alenia G.222 (Alenia originally Aeritalia) is a medium-sized STOL military transport aircraft. ... Spartan Aircraft Limited was a British aircraft manufacturer from 1930 to 1935. ... The Spartan Aircraft Company was an American aircraft manufacturing company founded in 1928 in by oil baron William G. Skelly in Tulsa, Oklahoma. ...

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Spartan (2004) (1000 words)
Spartan continues his trend of interesting and crisp dialogue and fascinating characters.
Val Kilmer plays perhaps a member of the Secret Service, or perhaps he is just one of those covert operatives that is so good at what he does that he is just an invisible spook who shows up to do a job that others have trouble with.
I think this is the fundamental difference in a film like Spartan and many other less intelligent films that try to glamorize political espionage thrillers.
STS-95 Payload: SPARTAN 201-5 (1324 words)
SPARTAN 201 is a free-flying payload that will study the solar wind and the sun's corona to increase our knowledge of our star's effects on the Earth.
The SPARTAN project offers the scientific community an intermediate capability for conducting investigations in space between that afforded by small payloads that remain in the orbiter and larger satellites that orbit the Earth for long periods of time.
The SPARTAN project was conceived in the late 1970s to take advantage of the opportunity offered by the space shuttle to provide more observation time for the increasingly more sophisticated experiments than the five to 10 minutes allowed by sounding rocket flights.
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