Castor 56203 224225081 2008-07-07T21:50:32Z Palmiped 1279278 /* HMS Castor */ HMS Castor (1832) page has been created {{wiktionary|castor}} '''Castor''' may refer to: ==Historical people== * [[Julius Caesar Drusus]], son of the Emperor Tiberius, nicknamed "Castor" * [[Castor of Rhodes]], a Greek grammarian and rhetorician * [[Saint Castor]], name of several Christian saints, such as [[Castor of Apt]] * A family name, see [[List of people by name: Cas-Caz#Castl - Castr|List of people by name: Cas-Caz]] ==Fictional people== * [[Castor and Pollux|Castor (mythology)]], one of the Gemini twins * [[Castor Oyl]], a fictional character in the [[Popeye]] cartoons and brother of [[Olive Oyl]]. * the villain in the movie ''[[Face/Off]]'', Castor Troy, portrayed by Nicolas Cage before the surgery and John Travolta after the surgery. * One of the Spartan's allies in the game [[Spartan: Total Warrior]]. ==Science and Technology== * [[Castor (star)]], α Geminorum * [[Castor (software)]], a data binding framework for Java * [[Castor oil plant|Castor bean]], a poisonous spurge seed * [[Castor oil]], the oil of the castor bean * [[Caster angle|Castor angle]], alignment in the vertical longitudinal plane of a motor vehicle's wheels * [[CASTOR at CERN]] is the acronym for CERN Advanced STORage manager, a data storage system used at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland. CERN is the European Laboratory for the Research in Particle Physics. * CASTOR, an acronym for "Centauro And Strange Object Research," a forward [[Compact Muon Solenoid|CMS]] [[calorimeter]] * [[CASTOR]] is the acronym for Cask for storage and transport of radioactive material (containers used to transport highly nuclear waste) * ''[[Castor (genus)|Castor]]'', the genus name of (and in many Romance languages the word for) the [[beaver]] * the [[Castor (rocket stage)]] * a variant spelling of [[caster]], a type of wheel *on the Saturnian moon [[Janus (moon)]] * a South Devon Railway 4-4-0ST steam locomotive of the [[South Devon Railway Eagle class]] ==Music== * [[Castor (band)]], an independent rock band from Champaign, IL * [[Castor Cracking Group]], a demo group from Sweden active on ZX Spectrum ==Places== * [[Castor, Alberta]], Canada * [[Castor, Cambridgeshire]], England * [[Castor, Louisiana]], United States * [[Castor (mountain)]], in the Pennine Alps * [[Castor Bay]] in North Shore City, Auckland, New Zealand * [[Castor Creek]] in Louisiana, United States * [[Castor River (Missouri)]] * [[Castor River (Ontario)]] * an old name for [[Caistor St. Edmund]], in Norfolk, England ==HMS ''Castor''== Four ships of the [[Royal Navy]] have borne the name '''HMS ''Castor'''''. Named after one of the [[Castor and Pollux|Gemini twins]] in [[Greek mythology]]. ''Castor'' also means "he who excels". *[[HMS Castor (1781)|HMS ''Castor'']] was a 36-gun [[fifth-rate]] captured from the [[Dutch]] in 1781 by [[HMS Flora (1781)|HMS ''Flora'']]. One month later she was captured by the French ''Frippone'' off Cadiz. *[[HMS Castor (1785)|HMS ''Castor'']] was a 32-gun fifth-rate launched in 1785. She was briefly in French hands in 1794, but was recaptured. She was sold in 1819. *[[HMS Castor (1832)|HMS ''Castor'']] was a 26-gun fifth-rate launched in 1832. In 1860 she became a training ship. She was sold in 1902. *[[HMS Castor (1915)|HMS ''Castor'']] was a [[C class cruiser|C-class]] [[light cruiser]] launched in 1915. She was sold in 1936. {{disambig}} [[Category:Ambiguous place names]] [[ca:Castor]] [[de:Castor]] [[et:Castor]] [[es:Castor (desambiguación)]] [[fr:Castor]] [[hr:Castor]] [[nl:Castor]] [[ja:キャスター]] [[ro:Castor (dezambiguizare)]] [[ru:Кастор]] [[fi:Castor]] [[sv:Castor]]