Minerva

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

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People

• Minerva (Daum Agora user), a South Korean netizen famous for his economic predictions.
• Minerva Urecal (1894 – 1966), American film and television actress
• Minerva, the stage name of Josephine Blatt (c.1869 – 1923)

Geography

• Minerva, New York, United States
• Minerva, Ohio, United States
• Minerva, Oregon, United States
• Minerva Reefs, two submerged atolls between Tonga and New Zealand
• Republic of Minerva, a self-declared South Pacific principality on the Minerva Reefs

Land development

• Minerva plc, a London based British developer and property firm
• Minerva Building, a skyscraper once planned for the eastern edge of London's main financial district
• Lokhandwala Minerva, a skyscraper under construction in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Entertainment

Games

• MINERVA (mod), a modification for the video game Half-Life 2
• Minerva, a character in the final cutscene of Assassin's Creed II

Manga and anime

• Minerva (Transformers), a character from the various Transformers universes
• Minerva class battleship, a fictional class of space vessels from the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny
• Minerva Mink, a character from the Animaniacs series
• Minerva X, a female mecha character from the Mazinger Z series
• Fencer of Minerva, a five episode soft-core hentai anime series

Music

• "Minerva" (song), a 2003 single by Deftones
• "Minerva", a 2005 song by Ani DiFranco, from her album Knuckle Down
• Minerva, a character in the comic opera Princess Ida

Novels

• Minerva McGonagall, a character in the Harry Potter book series
• Minerva Paradizo, a character from the Artemis Fowl book series
• Minerva, a setting in the book A World of Difference
• Minerva, a setting the Giants series
• Minerva, a character in the book seriesNoughts and Crosses
• Minerva, a ship and supporting character in the The Baroque Cycle book series

Theater

• Minerva Theatre, Chichester, England, opened in 1989
• Minerva Theatre, Kolkata, India, built in 1893
• Minerva, a character in the 1929 West End musical Mr. Cinders

Publications

• Minerva, an international review of ancient art and archaeology
• Minerva, a Norwegian periodical

Science and technology

Astronomy and space

• MINERVA mini-lander, a mini-lander on the unmanned spacecraft Hayabusa
• 93 Minerva, an asteroid discovered in 1867
• Minerva, a name originally proposed for the planet Uranus
• Minerva, a name originally proposed for the planet Pluto

Automotive

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

Computing and telecommunication

• MINERVA, a European Union organization concerned with the digitisation of cultural and scientific content
• MINERVA (cable system), a submarine telecommunications cable system linking Italy and Cyprus
• Minerva (QDOS reimplementation), a reimplementation of Sinclair QDOS
• Minerva Initiative, a plan that looks to tap into the community of area specialists and other university researchers
• Minerva Networks, a company that develops video compression technology and broadcast systems

Medicine

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

Physics

• MINERνA, a neutrino scattering experiment

Other science and technology

• Minerva Medal, an award in the field of design by the Chartered Society of Designers
• Minerva, a genus of prehistoric owls

Ships

• Minerva (1864), a ship possibly wrecked on the Auckland Islands
• Minerva II, a cruise ship launched in 2000
• Minerva class corvette, a series of corvettes of the Italian Marina Militare
• HMS Minerva, various ships of the British Royal Navy
• USS Minerva, various ships of the United States Navy
• MV Minerva, a cruise ship built in 1989

Other

• Editura Minerva, a Romanian publishing house
• Minerva roundabout, famous landmark in Guadalajara, Jalisco

See also

• Minerve (disambiguation)

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