Crown

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Contents 1 Architecture 2 Monarchy 3 Currency 4 Education 5 Music and audio 6 Dentistry 7 Science 8 Sport and entertainment 9 Motor vehicles 10 Literature and theater 11 Places 12 Other businesses 13 Religion 14 Other

Crown may refer to:

[edit] Architecture

• Crown, the highest point of a convex structure, such as an arch or a vault.

[edit] Monarchy

• Crown (headgear), the headgear worn by a monarch, other high dignitaries, divinities, etc.
• The Crown, an abstract concept which represents the legal authority for the existence of some (Commonwealth) governments
• Consort crown
• Coronation crown
• Crown of Thorns, in Christianity, the headgear placed on Jesus before his execution
• Hungary's Holy Crown
• Imperial crown
• State crown
• Triple Crown, the Papal Tiara
• Grass Crown
• Civic Crown
• Heraldic crown
  • Naval crown
  • Mural crown

[edit] Currency

• Austrian corona (1892 to 1916) (so-called because of use of Latin 'corona' on coins)
• British crown coin and/or British half crown coin
• Krone
• Krona
• koruna
• Estonian kroon, the currency of Estonia
• Faroese króna, the currency of the Faroe Islands
• Hungarian korona, former currency of Hungary
• Icelandic króna, the currency of Iceland

[edit] Education

• Crown College, University of California, Santa Cruz, a residential college
• Crown College (Minnesota), a small private college in St. Bonifacius, Minnesota
• Crown College (Tennessee), an unaccredited school with approximately 900 students
• Crown College (Washington), a small, for-profit, predominantly online college located in Tacoma, Washington.
• S.R. Crown Hall, a building at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois
• Dundee-Crown High School, a NW Suburban Chicago High School originally named Crown before merging with Dundee High School and becoming Dundee-Crown. Team name is Chargers, main rival are the Jacobs Golden Eagles.

[edit] Music and audio

• Crown Records, a number of different record labels
• The Crown (band), a Swedish death/thrash band
• "Crown", a song from the album Dosage by Collective Soul
• Crown, a stevedore-pimp who becomes a murderer in the opera Porgy and Bess. He is Bess's former lover and the principal villain of the piece; the other villain is Sportin' Life, the elegant dope peddler.
• Crown International, amplifier and microphone manufacturer founded in Elkhart, Indiana in 1947 by Clarence C. Moore

[edit] Dentistry

• Crown (dentistry), a dental treatment
• Crown (tooth), a portion of a tooth

[edit] Science

• Crown (anatomy), the top of the head
• Crown (botany), the branching leaf-bearing portion of a tree
• Crown ether, a family of heterocyclic molecules including 18-crown-6
• Crown group, a group of living organisms
• Crown Vetch, a plant

[edit] Sport and entertainment

• The Crown, the former name of the U.S. Bank Arena in Cincinnati, Ohio
• Crown Limited, an Australian gaming and entertainment company established in 2007
  • Crown Casino, a casino in Melbourne, Australia
  • Crown Macau, a 6-star hotel casino in Macau
  • Crown Las Vegas, a cancelled supertall skyscraper that was to be built on the Las Vegas Strip.
• Crown Media, a media production company

[edit] Motor vehicles

• Crown Coach Corporation, an American school bus manufacturer
• Ford Crown Victoria, a model of Ford car
• Toyota Crown, a model of Toyota car
• Crown (automobile), an automobile built in Detroit, MI, in 1905.

[edit] Literature and theater

• A crown of sonnets is a group of related sonnets.
• Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats, a book of photos by Michael Cunningham and Craig Marberry, published in 2000 (ISBN 0-385-50086-6)
• Crowns (play), a drama by playwright Regina Taylor (ISBN 0-8222-1963-8), based on the book Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats
• Diu Crône, an Arthurian romance
• Crown (comics), an enemy of Spider-Man

[edit] Places

• Crown, Inverness
• Crown Hill (various places)
• Crown Point (various places)
• Crown Gardens, Gauteng, a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa
• Crown North, Gauteng, a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa

[edit] Other businesses

• Crown Castle, an American communications company
• Crown Equipment Corporation, a manufacturer of industrial lift trucks
• Crown Financial Ministries, a non-profit financial services entity
• Crown Publishing Group, a subsidiary of Random House
• Crowne Plaza, an hotel chain
• Crown Wallpaper, a British wallpaper manufacturer

[edit] Religion

• Crown of Immortality, a literary and religious metaphor appearing in Baroque art.

[edit] Other

• Crown, one proposed additional suit (cards)
• Norwegian Crown, a cruise ship
• Lester Crown (born 1926), American businessman
• Crown, the highest part of a tunnel
• Crown, the top piece of a fountain
• The Crown, student newspaper at Redeemer University College
• crown glass, the name for high quality glasses used in optics or glazing
• Crown Lager, a beer brewed in Melbourne since 1919