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This page of disambiguation lists the subjects and articles with the same title. Castor is a proper name and common name that can be designated.
Animal
The beavers are rodents semi-aquatic family of Castoridae or terrestrial rodents of the family Aplodontidae.
- genus Castor species including:
- European beaver (Castor fiber)
- Canadian beaver (Castor canadensis)
- Beaver Mountain (Aplodontia rufa)
- such fossil Castoroides comprising species:
- Giant Beaver of Florida (Castoroides leiseyorum);
- Giant Beaver Nebraska (Castoroides ohioensis).
- Castor and Pollux were two elephants of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris who were killed and eaten, as well as many other animals in the zoo at the end of 1870 during the siege of Paris.
Name
Name derived from the ancient Greek / Kastor, it is celebrated on November 8.
Characters
- Castor and Pollux , in Greek mythology , are the two Dioscuri.
- Castor of Rhodes is a Greek historian of the first century BC. AD
- The beaver is a nickname given to Simone de Beauvoir (with pun on the English beaver (beaver) and the English pronunciation of Beauvoir).
Christian saints
Several Saints Catholic and Orthodox have this name:
- Castor of Alexandria ( third century ), martyr, celebrated on September 18 ,
- Beaver Pannonia ( IV century ), martyr, celebrated on November 8 ,
- Castor of Apt , founder of the Abbey Mananque , then Bishop of Apt ( about 420 ), celebrated on September 2 ,
- Beaver Rome mate Sebastien Rome , celebrated on December 18 ,
- Beaver Trier or Koblenz Castor ( 389 or 309 ?), monk, priest and confessor to the diocese of Trier , head of the city of Koblenz in Rhineland ; celebrated on February 13 Astronomy
- Castor is a star in the constellation of Gemini ( Geminorum).
Names
- Castor is the name of a summit of the Pennine Alps on the border between Switzerland of Italy , culminating at 4228 m. Another peak near the name of Pollux.
Several cities and towns bear this name:
Several rivers have this name:
- Castor River ("Beaver River") in Canada ,
- Castor River ("Beaver River") to the United States ,
- Beaver River in Quebec ,
- Beaver Lake in Montreal ,
- Beaver Creek in Louisiana.
Astronautics
- Castor is an artificial satellite launched in 1975 French
- Castor is an unmanned spacecraft developed by the ASI.
Editing
- Father Castor is a collection of the publisher Flammarion for children 1 to 10 years.
- Beaver Patrol is a series of comics.
- Le Castor Astral is a French publishing house.
- Little Beaver is a cartoon of the late 1970's.
Other meaning
- Busy beaver , mathematical problem which has a function not computable.
- Castor is a tracked vehicle of the French Polar Expeditions.
- The Beavers are a cooperative movement of self, born after the Second World War in France, active mainly between 1950 and 1960. The name was also given to many of their achievements.
- Neighborhoods Castor Buxerolles (suburb of Poitiers ), Marseille and Lyon are sets of residential houses built cooperatively in the 1960's.
- Castor is a framework Java.
- Castor, type of packaging for transport of nuclear fuel (or cask) and radioactive waste produced in Germany.
- Castor is a term used in the phrase "Great Works Beaver" which means the business of repairing deep, lasting one month each summer until 2017, the central section of tunnel in Paris, the RER line C of Ile-de-France.
References
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