Eureka
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Eureka may refer to:
- Eureka (word), a famous exclamation attributed to Archimedes
- Eureka effect, the sudden, unexpected realization of the solution to a problem
[edit] Places
[edit] Canada
[edit] United States
- Eureka, California
- Eureka, Colorado
- Eureka, Nevada County, California
- Eureka, Illinois
- Eureka, Indiana
- Eureka, Florida
- Eureka, Kansas
- Eureka, Louisiana
- Eureka, Missouri
- Eureka, Montana
- Eureka, Nevada
- Eureka, North Carolina
- Eureka, South Dakota
- Eureka, Texas
- Eureka, Utah
- Eureka, Polk County, Wisconsin, a town
- Eureka, Winnebago County, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
- Eureka Center, Minnesota, an unincorporated community
- Eureka Center, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
- Eureka County, Nevada
- Eureka Springs, Arkansas
- Eureka Township, Adair County, Iowa
- Eureka Township, Michigan
- Eureka Township, Dakota County, Minnesota
- Eureka Township, Valley County, Nebraska
- Eureka Valley (Inyo County), California
- Eureka Valley, San Francisco, California, a neighborhood
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[edit] Australia
[edit] New Zealand
[edit] Historical
[edit] Science and technology
- 5261 Eureka, an asteroid co-orbital with Mars
- EUREKA, the pan-European research and development inter-governmental initiative
- Eureka 147, also known as the Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) system
- Eureka beacon, used by Allies during World War II to guide paratroopers to drop zones
- Eureka (OPAC), a library search engine developed by RLG
- Eureka! (museum), a museum in Halifax, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
- Eureka Streams, an open source software project
- Heureka, a science centre in Vantaa, Finland
- The Eureka, a machine for generating Latin verses
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[edit] Entertainment
[edit] Film and television
- Eureka (BBC TV series), a 1980s British educational series produced by the BBC
- Eureka! (TV series), a 1980s Canadian educational series produced by TVOntario
- Eureka (1983 film), directed by Nicolas Roeg and starred Gene Hackman, Rutger Hauer, Mickey Rourke, and Joe Pesci
- Eureka (2000 film), directed by Shinji Aoyama
- Eureka TV, a science show that had aired on CBBC 2001–2005
- Eureka Seven, a 2005 anime series
- Eureka (TV series), 2006–2012, on Syfy (U.S.), shown in the UK as A Town Called Eureka
[edit] Other meanings
- Eureka! Tent Company, an American company
- Eureka Tower, a 2001 91-storey residential building in Melbourne, Australia
- Eureka (French automobile), a French automobile
- Eureka (1900 automobile), an American automobile
- Eureka (1907 automobile), an American automobile
- Eureka (Oz), Dorothy Gale's cat in The Wizard of Oz, so named because Uncle Henry found her
- Eureka (company), a manufacturer of vacuum cleaners
- Eureka (airship), is a Zeppelin NT owned by Airship Ventures
- Ameri-Cana Eureka, a Canadian ultralight aircraft
- Eureka Diamond, the first diamond found in South Africa
[edit] See also