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Eureka (or 'Heureka'; Greek εύρηκα/ηύρηκα) is a famous exclamation attributed to Archimedes, see: Eureka (word).

[edit] Places

Numerous places are named for the expression:

[edit] In the United States

[edit] Cities and towns

• Eureka, California
• Eureka, Illinois
  • Eureka College
• Eureka, Indiana
• 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] Outside the United States

• Eureka, Nova Scotia in Canada
• Eureka, Nunavut in Canada
• Eureka Sound, Nunavut, Canada
• Eureka, Transvaal in South Africa
• Eureka, Waikato in New Zealand
• Eureka, New South Wales in Australia
• Eureka Pass, a pass on Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut, Canada
• Eureka, Mid-Atlas, Morocco

[edit] Historical

• Eureka, Arizona, late 19th century ghost town 30 miles north of Yuma on the Colorado River
• Eureka (ferryboat), an 1890-built steam ferryboat now preserved in San Francisco
• Eureka Stockade, an 1854 goldminers' rebellion in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
  • Eureka Flag, a symbol of the Eureka Stockade

[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
• EURECA, a European scientific satellite

[edit] Entertainment

• Eureka: A Prose Poem, 1848 essay by Edgar Allan Poe
• Eureka (Jim O'Rourke album) whose title track was featured in the 2000 film
• Eureka! (video game), a text adventure

[edit] Film and television

• Eureka (TV series), 2006–, on the Sci Fi Channel (U.S.), shown in the UK as A Town Called Eureka
• 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, a main character in Eureka Seven
• 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

[edit] Other meanings

• Eureka Tower, a 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 (vacuum cleaner)/The Eureka Company, a brand of vacuum and other floor care products currently owned by the parent company AB Electrolux

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