Calico

Calico may refer to:

Textiles

• Calico (textile), a plain-woven cotton textile

Animals

• Calico butterfly, a genus of brush-footed butterflies commonly called the Crackers, Calicoes, or Clicks
• Calico cat, a domestic cat with the common three- or four-colored coat pattern calico (a.k.a. tortoiseshell-and-white)
• Calico goldfish, goldfish that have a type of metallic and transparent scales
• Calico grouper, a species of fish found in Bermuda and the United States
• Calico Pennant, a dragonfly found in North America

Business

• Calico Light Weapons Systems, a small firearms manufacturing company currently based in Hillsboro, Oregon
• Calico Liberty, a brand of roller-delayed, blowback-operated, semi-automatic rifles and pistols
  • Calico M100, a rifle/carbine
  • Calico M100P, a semi-automatic pistol
  • Calico M960, a 9mm semi-automatic gun
• Calico (fitness), a unique outdoor and online fitness system in Australia.

Education

• CALICO (consortium), (Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium), an international consortium devoted to the dissemination of information concerning language learning technology

History

• Calico Acts, 1690–1721 laws that banned the import of textiles into England

People

• Calico Hunt (born 1986)Canadian jewelry designer from Vancouver Island, B.C
• Calico Cooper (born 1981), American actress and the daughter of rock and roll musician Alice Cooper
• Calico Jack Rackham (1682–1720), English pirate captain in the early 18th century
• Tyrone Calico (born 1980), American football wide receiver

Places

• Calico Mountains (California), a mountain range north of Interstate 15 in the Mojave Desert, California (San Bernardino and Inyo Counties)
  • Calico Ghost Town, a ghost town in the Mojave Desert region of Southern California
    • Calico and Odessa Railroad, a heritage railway in the ghost town of Calico, California
    • Ghost Town and Calico Railway, an attraction within Knott's Berry Farm, a theme park in Buena Park, California modeled after the ghost town and its railway
  • Calico Peaks, mountains within the Calico mountain range
  • Calico Early Man Site, a possible archaeological site in the mountain range
• Calico Mountains (Nevada), a mountain range in northwestern Nevada (hundreds of miles from the California mountain range)
  • Calico Mountains Wilderness, a wilderness area within the Calico mountain range
• Calico Mills, one of Ahmedabad’s (India) earliest textile mills established in 1880
  • Calico Museum of Textiles, in the city of Ahmedabad, state of Gujarat in western India
• Calico Rock, Arkansas, a city in Izard County, United States

Music

• Calico Skies, the sixth song on Paul McCartney's 1997 album, Flaming Pie
• "Calico Moon", a song on Chris Ledoux's 2002 album, The Capitol Collection (1990-2000)

Television

• Calico, a research vessel in the 1978-81 Godzilla animated series.

Novels

• Calico Bush (novel), a historical fiction children's novel by Rachel Field
• Calico Captive, a historical fiction children's novel by Elizabeth George Speare

See also

• All pages beginning with "Calico"