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Eureka (or 'Heureka'; Greek εύρηκα/ηύρηκα) is a famous exclamation attributed to Archimedes, see: Eureka (word).
Places
Numerous places are named for the expression:
In the United States
Cities and towns
- Eureka, California
- Eureka, Illinois
- 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
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
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
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
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
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
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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