Bellona
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Places
United States of America- Bellona Foundry and adjacent Bellona ArsenalBellona ArsenalBellona Arsenal was an antebellum United States Army post in Chesterfield County, Virginia, above the James River near Argyle, Virginia.-Origins:...
, 19th century United States Army and Confederate munitions factory and depot in Virginia
Italy
- Bellona, Campania, a comune in the Province of Caserta
Solomon Islands
- Bellona IslandBellona IslandBellona Island is an island of the Rennell and Bellona Province, Solomon Islands. Its length is about 10 km and its average width 2.5 km. Its area is about 17 km². It is almost totally surrounded by 30–70 m high cliffs, consisting primarily of raised coral...
, an island in Rennell and Bellona Province
Other uses
- 28 Bellona28 Bellona28 Bellona is a large main-belt asteroid.Bellona was discovered by R. Luther on March 1, 1854. It is named after Bellona, the Roman goddess of war; the name was chosen to mark the beginning of the Crimean War.-External links:...
, an asteroid - Bellona, a French ship captured in 1759 by Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount HoodSamuel Hood, 1st Viscount HoodSamuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood was a British Admiral known particularly for his service in the American War of Independence and French Revolutionary Wars...
- Bellona, a Swedish class of frigates and a ship designed by Fredrik Henrik af ChapmanFredrik Henrik af ChapmanFredrik Henrik af Chapman was a Swedish shipbuilder, scientist and officer in the Swedish navy. He was also manager of the Karlskrona shipyard 1782-1793...
in the late 18th century. - HMS BellonaHMS BellonaEight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Bellona after a Bellona, the goddess of war in Roman mythology: was a 30-gun sixth rate, formerly the French privateer Bellone. She was captured in 1747, and sold in 1749. was a 74-gun third rate, launched in 1760 and broken up in 1814. was a...
, a name held by eight ships of the Royal Navy - Bellona FoundationBellona FoundationThe Bellona Foundation is a multi-disciplinary international environmental NGO based in Oslo, Norway. Founded in 1986 by Frederic Hauge and Rune Haaland as a direct action protest group, it has since blossomed into a recognized technology and solution-oriented environmental champion with offices on...
, a Norwegian environmental organisation - Bellona Publishing HouseBellona Publishing HouseBellona Publishing House is a publishing house based in Warsaw, Poland. It specialises in books on military history. Among the authors collaborating with Bellona are professors Henryk Samsonowicz, Lech Wyszczelski and Tadeusz Panecki, but also Leszek Moczulski, Krzysztof Daukszewicz, Grzegorz...
, a PolishPolandPoland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
publishing house specialising in books on military historyMilitary historyMilitary history is a humanities discipline within the scope of general historical recording of armed conflict in the history of humanity, and its impact on the societies, their cultures, economies and changing intra and international relationships....
In literature
- The Unpleasantness at the Bellona ClubThe Unpleasantness at the Bellona ClubThe Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club is a 1928 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, her fourth featuring Lord Peter Wimsey.- Plot outline:General Fentiman is found dead at the Bellona Club in London, where his body went unnoticed for some hours. His wealthy sister also passed away the same day and under...
, a Peter Wimsey adventure - Bellona, a reality-shifting city of Samuel R. Delany's science fiction novel DhalgrenDhalgrenDhalgren is a science fiction novel by Samuel R. Delany. The story begins with a cryptic passage:to wound the autumnal city.So howled out for the world to give him a name.The in-dark answered with wind....