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Eureka (1983 film)
Eureka (1983) is a Nicolas Roeg drama starring Gene Hackman as prospector Jack McCann, loosely based on the Harry Oakes murder; written by Paul Mayersberg, shelved by United Artists, released 1984, grossing about $100,000.
Eureka (word)
Eureka (Greek εὕρηκα, heúrēka, "I have found it") is an English exclamation of triumph at a discovery, attributed to Archimedes solving Hiero II's crown problem; entered English c. 1600, story from Vitruvius.
Eureka College
Eureka College, chartered 1855 in Eureka, Illinois, is a private Disciples of Christ liberal arts college, alma mater of Ronald Reagan (class of 1932), first in Illinois to admit men and women equally, home of the Reagan Leadership Program and Reagan Museum.
Eureka effect
Eureka effect, or Aha! experience, the sudden insightful solution of a problem, studied since Gestalt psychology; linked to right temporal lobe activity, higher solution accuracy, and resistance to cognitive load.
Eureka Flag
The Eureka Flag, or Southern Cross flag, raised at Bakery Hill, Ballarat on 29 November 1854 and flown at the Eureka Stockade; blue field, white cross and five stars, held at the Art Gallery of Ballarat, contested as labour, nationalist, and far-right symbol.
Eureka Forbes
Eureka Forbes Limited is an Indian health and hygiene company headquartered in Mumbai, best known for its Aquaguard water purifiers and its vacuum cleaners, founded in 1982.
Eureka O'Hara
Eureka O'Hara (Eureka!), drag persona of David Huggard of Johnson City, Tennessee; Drag Race seasons 9-10 and All Stars 6 contestant and Emmy-winning HBO We're Here host.
EUREKA Prometheus Project
The EUREKA Prometheus Project was a European cooperative research program in intelligent vehicles and automated driving, initiated by Daimler-Benz in 1986 and run mainly from 1987 to 1994.
Eureka Rebellion
Eureka Rebellion (also Eureka Stockade): armed 1854 uprising of Ballarat gold miners in Victoria, Australia, against the 30-shilling monthly mining licence; crushed on 3 December 1854 but led to democratic goldfield reforms.
Eureka Seven (交響詩篇エウレカセブン)
Eureka Seven (交響詩篇エウレカセブン, Psalms of Planets Eureka seveN) is a 50-episode 2005–2006 BONES mecha anime directed by Tomoki Kyoda, plus its franchise: AO sequel, Hi-Evolution films, PS2 games, and 2025 20th-anniversary project.
Eureka Seven: Pocket Full of Rainbows
Eureka Seven: Pocket Full of Rainbows (交響詩篇エウレカセブン ポケットが虹でいっぱい), English title Good Night, Sleep Tight, Young Lovers, is a 2009 BONES anime film retelling Eureka Seven as an alternate-universe story of Renton and Eureka in 2054.
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
Eureka Springs, Arkansas, an Ozark Mountain city and one of two Carroll County seats, founded in 1879 as a mineral-spring resort, population about 2,200, with its entire town on the National Register of Historic Places and a tourism-driven economy.
Eureka Tower
Eureka Tower is a 297.3-meter residential skyscraper in the Southbank precinct of Melbourne, Australia, completed in 2006 by Fender Katsalidis and once the world's tallest residential building.
Eureka-Arcata, CA Micro Area
Eureka-Arcata, CA Micro Area (CBSA 21700, Eureka-Arcata-Fortuna) is a California micropolitan statistical area covering Humboldt County, about 132,000 residents, anchored by Eureka and Arcata, with low incomes but high home values.
Eureka, California
Eureka, California: county seat of Humboldt County on Humboldt Bay, incorporated April 18, 1856; a Victorian Seaport and State Historical Landmark with about 25,000-26,500 residents and a redwood lumber and port heritage.
Eureka, Missouri
Eureka, Missouri: a St. Louis County suburb of 11,646 (2020 census) on the Meramec River and Route 66, home of Six Flags St. Louis and adjacent to Route 66 State Park, the former Times Beach dioxin site.
Eureka, Nevada
Eureka, Nevada: county seat of Eureka County on Highway 50, founded after an 1864 silver-lead strike; 1880s boomtown with 16 smelters and 10,000 people, now a National Register historic district.
Eureka, Nunavut
Eureka is a Canadian High Arctic research and weather station on Slidre Fiord, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, established in 1947 as the first Joint Arctic Weather Station.
Euretaster insignis
Euretaster insignis (basionym Retaster insignis, Sladen 1882) is a stout Indo-West Pacific sea star of the family Pterasteridae, order Velatida, up to 15 cm across, with an osculum and brooded young, living 1–132 m deep on sponges.
Eurie Kim
Eurie Kim is a Managing Partner at Forerunner, a consumer venture firm, best known for her early investment in luggage company Away and her board seats at ŌURA, Curology, and The Farmer's Dog.
Eurindia
Eurindia, a 1924 book by the Argentine essayist Ricardo Rojas, sets out an aesthetic doctrine for Argentina built on fusing Hispanic and Indigenous American cultural values into one cultural entity.
EURion constellation
The EURion constellation, also known as Omron rings, is an anti-counterfeiting pattern of five small circles printed on many banknotes since 1997, causing photocopiers to refuse reproduction.
Euripides
Euripides (Εὐριπίδης, c. 485/4 to 407/6 BC) was an Athenian tragic poet, the third great fifth-century tragedian alongside Aeschylus and Sophocles, and the tragedian whose plays survive in the largest number.
Euripus Mons
Euripus Mons is an IAU-approved mountain on Mars at 44.8 degrees south, 105 degrees east in Promethei Terra, east of Hellas basin; an about 89 km remnant massif ringed by a lobate debris apron of debris-covered ice studied for Mars's glacial history.
Euripus Strait
Euripus Strait (Euripos), at Chalkida, Greece, separates Euboea from the mainland; 40 m wide, 8.5 m deep, with strong reversing semi-diurnal tidal currents reaching about 2.5 m/s, studied since Aristotle and assessed for tidal energy.
Eurmeiminanki
Eurmeiminanki (é-ur₄-me-imin-an-ki), the ziggurat of the god Nabû at Borsippa, Iraq; name means House which Gathers the Seven of Heaven and Underworld. Rebuilt by Nebuchadnezzar II and Nabonidus; long mistaken for the Tower of Babel.
Euro
The euro is the common currency of 21 European Union member states, managed by the European Central Bank and used daily by about 358 million people.
Euro banknotes
Euro banknotes are the banknotes of the euro, issued since 2002 in denominations from €5 to €500, with more than 30 billion notes worth over €1.5 trillion in circulation.
Euro changeover
The euro changeover is the process by which an EU Member State replaces its national currency with the euro, from fixing the conversion rate to swapping banknotes and coins.
Euro coins
Euro coins are the eight denominations of the euro, from 1 cent to 2 euros, legal tender across the euro area since 2002, each with a common European side and a national side.