Helicon

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• Helicon (river), a river that no longer exists in the Macedonian city of Dion, mentioned in Greek myths • Mount Helicon, a mountain located in Boeotia, Greece • "Helikon," a mansion built in 1893 and designed by Charles Slayter in Strathfield, New South Wales • Helikon Park, a park located in the Randfontein Local Municipality, West Rand District Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa • Torre Helicon, the fourth tallest building in Monterrey, Mexico • Helicon Home Colony, an experimental community created by author Upton Sinclair in Englewood, New Jersey, United States • A fictional planet in the Arcturus sector, where Hari Seldon was born in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series

Places

  • Helicon (river), a river that no longer exists in the Macedonian city of Dion, mentioned in Greek myths
  • Mount Helicon, a mountain located in Boeotia, Greece
  • "Helikon," a mansion built in 1893 and designed by Charles Slayter in Strathfield, New South Wales
  • Helikon Park, a park located in the Randfontein Local Municipality, West Rand District Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa
  • Torre Helicon, the fourth tallest building in Monterrey, Mexico
  • Helicon Home Colony, an experimental community created by author Upton Sinclair in Englewood, New Jersey, United States
  • A fictional planet in the Arcturus sector, where Hari Seldon was born in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series

Arts and entertainment

  • Helicon (instrument), a brass instrument that is part of the tuba family
  • Helicon Mountain, the studio of Jools Holland
  • Helicon, a 1977 album by The Four Seasons
  • Helicon Records, a record label started in Israel in 1985
  • "New Paths to Helicon, Pt. 1" and "New Paths to Helicon, Pt. 2," songs by the Scottish post-rock band Mogwai
  • Helikon, a 1952 piano concerto by Mikis Theodorakis
  • Helikon Opera, an opera company based in Moscow
  • Englands Helicon, a collection of Elizabethan pastoral poems published in 1600
  • Helicon Arts Cooperative, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that has produced Yesterday Was a Lie and other films
  • Heliconian Club, a women's arts society in Toronto

Science and technology

  • Helicon Filter is a software program used to edit photographs.
  • Helicon Ape is a tool that adds Apache features to IIS web servers using ASP.NET.
  • Helicon (crater) is a crater on the Moon formed by an impact.
  • Helicon (physics) refers to low-frequency electromagnetic waves.
  • Helikon vortex separation process is a method used to enrich uranium by using vortex separation.
  • Helicon Double Layer Thruster is a prototype engine that helps spacecraft move through space.
  • Helicon engine is a motorcycle engine used in the Buell 1125R and 1125CR models.

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