Columbine
Appearance
Columbine may refer to:
Events
- Columbine High School massacre, a 1999 school shooting in Columbine, Colorado
- Columbine Mine massacre, a 1927 coal miner strike massacre in Columbine, Colorado
Art and entertainment
- Columbine (book), the 2009 Edgar-Award winning bestseller about the massacre
- Bowling for Columbine, a 2002 film exploring the 1999 massacre and other violent acts in the United States
- Columbine (album), an album by Danish singer-songwriter Aura Dione
- "Columbine", a painting by Max Beckmann 1950
- Columbine (in Italian, Colombina) is a stock character in the Commedia dell'arte, Harlequin's mistress
- Columbine is a similar stock character in the related Harlequinade, part of the British genre of pantomime.
Vehicles
- Columbine, a locomotive of the Grand Junction Railway
- Columbine II and Columbine III, the Lockheed Constellation presidential aircraft used by US president Dwight D. Eisenhower
- HMS Columbine, the name of seven ships of the Royal Navy
- the Columbine (train), a passenger train operated by the Chicago & North Western and Union Pacific
Places
Other
- Aquilegia, a genus of woodland flowers also known as granny's bonnets or columbines.
- Stiboges nymphidia, a metalmark butterfly commonly known as the Columbine
- Columbine, a racehorse, competitor in two Grand Nationals, finishing fifth in the 1842 Grand National
- columbine, an adjective related to the Columbidae (doves and pigeons)