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Eureka (or 'Heureka'; Greek ) is a famous exclamation attributed to Archimedes, see: Eureka (word).
Place names
Several places are named for the expression:
In the United States
- Eureka, California
- Yreka, California
- Eureka Valley is also the name of two places in California: one a neighborhood in San Francisco and the other a valley in the eastern part of the state.
- Eureka, Illinois
- Eureka, Kansas
- Eureka, Missouri
- Eureka, Montana
- Eureka, Nevada
- Eureka, South Dakota
- Eureka, Utah
- Eureka Springs, Arkansas
- Eureka, North Carolina
- Eureka Road, an east-west street in Metro Detroit
Other locations
More than one of these places are or were involved in the gold mining industry, with the phrase 'I found it' having an obvious connection.
Other meanings
- Eureka! A California Adventure Parade was a parade at Disney's California Adventure park in 2001-2002
- 5261 Eureka is the name of an asteroid co-orbital with Mars.
- EUREKA is the name of the European Union's research and development organization.
- The Eureka Stockade was an Australian miners' revolt in 1854
- Eureka (online game) is an online game developed by Free Fall Associates
- Eureka (Edgar Allan Poe), an 1848 prose poem by Edgar Allan Poe
- Eureka (1984 film), a 1984 movie directed by Nicolas Roeg and starring Gene Hackman, Rutger Hauer, Mickey Rourke, and Joe Pesci
- Eureka (2000 film), a 2000 directed by Shinji Aoyama
- Eureka (musical), an Australian musical by Maggie May Gordon and Michael Maurice Harvey, based on a book by Gale Edwards and John Senczuk, about the 1854 goldminers' uprising in the regional boom town of Ballarat
- Eureka (1890), a steam ferryboat now preserved in San Francisco, California
- Eureka (TV series), a television series due to premiere in 2006 on the Sci Fi Channel
- Eureka! (Canadian TV series), a Canadian educational TV series in the 1980s
- The Eureka Tower is a skyscraper, the tallest residential building in the world, in the city of Melbourne, Australia
- The Eureka Maru, a fictional starship in the television series Andromeda
- Eureka (vacuum cleaner), a brand of vacuum cleaner
- Eureka! (bplan competition), India's largest business plan competition conducted by the Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Bombay
- Eureka! (museum), a museum near Halifax, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
- Eureka! (computer game), a text adventure for the Commodore 64
- Heureka, a science centre in Vantaa, Finland
- Eureka (search engine), an OPAC (library search engine) developed by RLG.
- Eureka (magazine), a magazine published by the Cambridge University Mathematical Society
- Eureeka's Castle, a TV show that ran on Nickelodeon from 1989 to 1995
- Eureka Seven, a mecha anime by the studio BONES
- Eureka beacon, a type of radio beacon used by Allied pathfinder groups during World War II to guide paratroop units to drop zones
- Eureka is a 7X Lineage2 server from L2-Paradise
- Eureka (cable network), a German cable news network that broadcast for a couple of years in the 1980s
Mottos
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