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'''[[Apollo]]''' is a Greek and Roman god of music, healing, prophecy and enlightenment. |
'''[[Apollo]]''' is a Greek and Roman god of music, healing, prophecy and enlightenment. It is also a fucked cheddar chicken cheesegoat burger. |
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The name '''Apollo''' may also refer to: |
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Apollo is a Greek and Roman god of music, healing, prophecy and enlightenment. It is also a fucked cheddar chicken cheesegoat burger.
The name Apollo may also refer to:
Space
- Apollo program, a series of American space missions that landed men on the moon and returned them to Earth
- The Apollo spacecraft with the Command/Service Module and Lunar Module
- Apollo, the ancient Greek name for planet Mercury when it appeared before dawn.
- Apollo (crater), a basin on the far side of the moon
- 1862 Apollo, a near-Earth asteroid discovered in 1932
- Apollo asteroid, one of a group of near-Earth asteroids named after 1862 Apollo
- APOLLO, the Apache Point Observatory Lunar Laser-ranging Operation, lunar observatory in New Mexico
Transportation
- Apollo class cruiser of the Royal Navy
- HMS Apollo, ships of the Royal Navy
- USS Apollo
- USS Apollo (AS-25), a submarine tender of the United States Navy
- Gumpert Apollo, a German racing and high-performance sports car
- Ducati Apollo, a prototype motorcycle of 1964
- Buick Apollo, an American compact car built from 1973 to 1975
- Apollo (1906 automobile), an American car made from 1906 to 1907
- Apollo (1910 automobile), a German car built from 1910 to 1927
- Apollo (1962 automobile), an American sports car built from 1962 to 1964
- Apollo (1971 automobile), a custom-built British sports car
- Armstrong Whitworth Apollo, a prototype airliner
- Apollo, a steam locomotive of the West Cornwall Railway
- Apollo Bicycle, a manufacturer of bicycles
- Apollo Pedal Car, a successful design of racing pedal car which competes in the British Pedal Car Championship
- Holden Apollo, an automobile manufactured by Toyota and sold by Holden in Australia from 1989 to 1997.
- ST Apollo, a tugboat
Religion
- Apollo Quiboloy, a Filipino televangelist based in Davao City.
Organizations
- Apollo Hospitals, a healthcare group in India
- Apollo Alliance, a coalition working on a clean energy revolution in America
- Apollo Management, L.P., private equity firm
- Operation APOLLO, a military operation of the Canadian Navy in Afghanistan
- Apollo Computer, Inc. a workstation manufacturer, acquired in 1989 by Hewlett-Packard
- Apollo Group, a company specializing in adult education
Locations
- Apollo, Pennsylvania, United States
- Apollo Bay, Victoria, Australia
- Most Apollo (Apollo bridge), a road bridge over the Danube in Bratislava
- Apollo, a town near Johannesburg, South Africa, location of static inverter plant of Cahora Bassa (HVDC)
Products
- Apollo/Domain, a series of workstations made by Apollo Computer, Inc.
- Apollo Reservation System, the computerised central reservation system developed by United Airlines
- Apollo, a scent variety of Axe (Lynx)
- Bryggeriet Apollo, a Danish brewpub situated in central Copenhagen
- Brand used by Idemitsu Kosan for various oil and gasoline products
Arts
Film and television
- Apollo Creed, a boxer played by Carl Weathers in the Rocky film series.
- Captain Apollo, a character in the original Battlestar Galactica television series
- Lee "Apollo" Adama, a character in the 2004 re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica
- EAS Apollo, an EarthForce omega class destroyer starship in the Babylon 5 universe
- Apollo Candy, a fictional candy bar in the Lost television series
- Live at the Apollo (TV series), a British stand-up comedy television series
- Apollo class starship of Star Trek
Dance and music
- Apollo (ballet), 1928 ballet by George Balanchine to Stravinsky's Apollon musagète
- Apollon musagète musical composition by Igor Stravinsky
- Apollo (band), a Brit-inspired rock band from Southeast Michigan
- Apollo 100, a British synthpop band of the same era as the above
- Apollo 440, a British electronic rock band from 1990s-present
- Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks, 1983 album by Brian Eno
- Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness, 2005 album by Coheed and Cambria
- Apollo 18 (album), 1992 album by They Might Be Giants
- Apollo, 2006 album by Stoner rock group Nebula (band)
- "Mr. Apollo", a song by the Bonzo Dog Band on their album Tadpoles
Publishing
- Apollo (magazine), a British arts magazine
- Apollo (comics), a member of in Wildstorm Comics' The Authority
- Apollo, a character in The Amory Wars comic book series
- Apollo (Saint Seiya), a character in the fictional universe of Masami Kurumada's manga, Saint Seiya
Record labels
- Apollo Records (1921) - a US based company
- Apollo Records (1928) - a US based company
- Apollo Records (1944) - a US based company
- Apollo Records (Belgium)
- Apollo Records (Seattle)
Theatres, cinemas and music venues
- Apollo Theater, a theater in New York City
- Apollo Theatre, a theater in London
- Apollo Cinemas, a chain of cinemas in the United Kingdom
- Apollo Theatre (disambiguation) - listing other theaters of this name
- The Apollo (Glasgow), a former music venue in Glasgow, Scotland
- Hammersmith Apollo, an entertainment venue in Hammersmith, London
- Apollo (nightclub), a nightclub in central Helsinki, Finland
Other uses
- Apollo (butterfly), a species of butterfly that resides in the mountains of Europe.
- Apollo (submarine communications cable), a cable crossing the Atlantic ocean
- Apollo oil refinery, a Nazi Germany facility in the Bratislava oil district.
- Apollo (Adobe), a cross-OS runtime system
- Apollo, a Coptic ascetic and martyr: see Abib and Apollo
- Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, the fourth in the series of Ace Attorney games for the Nintendo DS