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Eureka (or 'Heureka'; Greek εύρηκα/ηύρηκα) is a famous exclamation attributed to Archimedes, see: Eureka (word).
[edit] Places
[edit] Canada
[edit] United States
- Eureka, Alaska
- Eureka, California
- Eureka, Illinois
- Eureka, Indiana
- Eureka, Florida
- Eureka, Kansas
- Eureka, Louisiana
- Eureka, Missouri
- Eureka, Montana
- Eureka, Nevada
- Eureka, North Carolina
- Eureka, South Dakota
- Eureka, Utah
- Eureka, Wisconsin
- Eureka Springs, Arkansas
- Eureka Township, Adair County, Iowa
- Eureka Township, Michigan
- Eureka Township, Dakota County, Minnesota
- Eureka Valley (Inyo County), California
- Eureka Valley (San Francisco), California, a neighborhood
[edit] Elsewhere
[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 (magazine), published by the Cambridge University Mathematical Society
- Eureka (OPAC), a library search engine developed by RLG
- Eureka! (museum), a museum in Halifax, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
- Heureka, a science centre in Vantaa, Finland
- The Eureka, a machine for generating Latin verses
[edit] Entertainment
[edit] Film and television
- Eureka (TV series), 2006–, on Syfy (U.S.), shown in the UK as A Town Called Eureka
- Eureka TV, a science show that had aired on CBBC 2001-2005
- Eureka! (TV series), a 1980s Canadian educational series produced by TVOntario
- Eureeka's Castle, a TV series that ran on Nickelodeon from 1989 to 1995
- Eureka Seven, a mecha anime by the BONES studio; using the Japanese alphabet, the pronunciation of the word as it is used in the anime is "Eh-oo-re(le)-ka"
- Eureka Maru, a fictional starship in the TV series Andromeda
- Eureka (1984 film), directed by Nicolas Roeg and starred Gene Hackman, Rutger Hauer, Mickey Rourke, and Joe Pesci
- Eureka (2000 film), directed by Shinji Aoyama
- Eureka Stockade (film), 1949, Australia
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