Minerva (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 People 2 Geography 2.1 Land development 3 Entertainment 3.1 Games 3.2 Manga and anime 3.3 Music 3.4 Novels 3.5 Theatres 4 Journals 5 Science and technology 5.1 Astronomy and space 5.2 Automotive 5.3 Computing and telecommunication 5.4 Medicine 5.5 Physics 5.6 Other science and technology 6 Ships 7 Sports 8 Other 9 See also

Minerva is the Roman goddess of crafts and wisdom, but the name may also refer to:

[edit] People

• Josephine Blatt A.K.A Minerva (c.1869 – 1923), strongwoman
• Minerva Urecal (1894 – 1966), American film and television actress
• Minerva Pérez Garrido, aka K.U. Minerva (born 1977), Spanish eurodance singer
  • K.U. Minerva at the Spanish Wikipedia

[edit] Geography

• Minerva, New York, United States
• Minerva, Ohio, United States
• Minerva, Oregon, United States
• Minerva Reefs, two submerged atolls between Tonga and New Zealand
  • The Principality of Minerva, a self-declared South Pacific principality on these reefs
• Recif de la Minerve, another submerged atoll in French Polynesia near Mangareva

[edit] Land development

• Minerva plc, a major British development company
  • Minerva Building, a skyscraper planned for London's financial district by Minerva plc

[edit] Entertainment

[edit] Games

• MINERVA (mod), a modification for Half-Life 2

Minerva from Final Fantasy: CRISIS CORE

[edit] Manga and anime

• Minerva, a character from the various Transformers universes
• Minerva class battleship, a fictional class of space vessels from the anime series Gundam SEED Destiny
• Minerva X, a female mecha character from the Mazinger Z series
• Minerva Mink, a character from the Animaniacs series

[edit] Music

• "Minerva" (song), a 2003 single by the Deftones
• "Minerva", a 2005 song by Ani DiFranco, from her album Knuckle Down

[edit] Novels

• Minerva, a real-life character in the John Berendt novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
• Minerva, a conscious computer character in the Robert A. Heinlein science fiction novel Time Enough for Love
• Professor Minerva McGonagall, a wizard character in the J. K. Rowling Harry Potter series
• Minerva Paradizo, a girl genius character from the Eoin Colfer Artemis Fowl series
• Minerva, a ship/supporting character in Neal Stephenson's The Baroque Cycle
• Minerva, a fictional planet in the Harry Turtledove novel A World of Difference
• Minerva, a fictional planet in James P. Hogan's Giants series

[edit] Theatres

• Minerva Theatre, Kolkata, India, built in 1893
• Minerva Theatre, Chichester, England, opened in 1989

[edit] Journals

• "Minerva", a section heading in the British Medical Journal
• Minerva, a triannual magazine for members of the Royal Dublin Society
• Minerva Medica, an Italian publisher of medical journals and books
• Minerva (Norwegian journal), a Norwegian journal
• Mars and Minerva, journal of the Special Air Service Regiment of the British Army, named from the Artists Rifles regimental badge

[edit] Science and technology

[edit] Astronomy and space

• Uranus, before its name was settled upon in 1850, was proposed to be called Minerva
• 93 Minerva, an asteroid discovered in 1867
• Pluto, before its name was decided shortly after its discovery in 1930, was proposed to be called Minerva
• MINERVA mini-lander, MIcro/Nano Experimental Robot Vehicle for Asteroid, which failed to deploy upon asteroid Itokawa in 2005

[edit] Automotive

• Minerva automobile, a Belgian luxury automobile manufactured from 1902 until 1938

[edit] Computing and telecommunication

• Minerva (QDOS reimplementation), a reimplementation of Sinclair QDOS
• Minerva Networks, a company that develops video compression technology and broadcast systems
• Project MINERVA, Mapping the INternet Electronic Resources Virtual Archive, the Library of Congress Web Archive and Preservation Project
• Minerva, the e-learning platform of Ghent University that uses Dokeos as its course management system
• Minerva, the electronic registration system of McGill University, Montreal
• MINERVA, MInisterial NEtwoRk for Valorising Activities in digitisation, a European Union organization concerned with the digitisation of cultural and scientific content

[edit] Medicine

• Minerva cast, a type of orthopedic cast enclosing the patient's trunk and head

[edit] Physics

• MINERνA, Main INjector ExpeRiment Neutrino-A, a short-baseline neutrino experiment at Fermilab

[edit] Other science and technology

• Minerva (genus), a genus of prehistoric owls
• Minerva Medal, an award in the field of design by the Chartered Society of Designers
• Minerva (watch), a brand of Swiss hand-made watches
• "Minerva" brand firecracker, a staple of the Easter celebration in Greece
• La Minerve, a giant ascension balloon envisioned by Étienne-Gaspard Robert in 1820

[edit] Ships

• HMS Minerva (disambiguation), eight ships of the British Royal Navy
• French ship Minerve (disambiguation), fifteen ships of the French navy
• Minerva (ship), a cruise ship built in 1989
• Minerva II, a cruise ship launched in 2000

[edit] Sports

• Minerva F.C., a 19th century West London soccer team

[edit] Other

• Minerva Central, the name of the first book store in Mozambique
• The Minerva, oldest pub in Plymouth, England

[edit] See also

• Minerve (disambiguation)
• French ship Minerve (disambiguation)