Campion
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Campion may refer to:
Biology
- Flowering plantFlowering plantThe flowering plants , also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies...
s of the CaryophyllaceaeCaryophyllaceaeThe Caryophyllaceae, commonly called the pink family or carnation family, is a family of flowering plants. It is included in the dicotyledon order Caryophyllales in the APG III system, alongside 33 other families, including Amaranthaceae, Cactaceae and Polygonaceae...
generaGeneraGenera is a commercial operating system and development environment for Lisp machines developed by Symbolics. It is essentially a fork of an earlier operating system originating on the MIT AI Lab's Lisp machines which Symbolics had used in common with LMI and Texas Instruments...
LychnisLychnisLychnis is a genus of 15-25 species of flowering plants in the family Caryophyllaceae, native to Europe, Asia and north Africa. The genus is closely related to Silene, differing in the flowers having five styles , the seed capsule having five teeth , and in the sticky stems of Lychnis...
and SileneSileneSilene is a genus of flowering plants in the family Caryophyllaceae. Common names include campion and catchfly....
, including:- Silene acaulis, or moss campion, a flower found in Eurasia and North America
- Silene dioica, or red campion, a native European flower
- Silene latifolia, or white campion, a flower found in Africa, western Asia, Europe and North America
- Silene tomentosaSilene tomentosaSilene tomentosa, the Gibraltar campion, is a very rare flowering plant of the genus Silene and the family Caryophyllaceae. It is a woody-based perennial about 40cm high, with bilobed flowers ranging from pink to pale violet and is endemic to Gibraltar.-Re-discovery and conservation:Although the...
, or Gibraltar campion, endemic to GibraltarGibraltarGibraltar is a British overseas territory located on the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula at the entrance of the Mediterranean. A peninsula with an area of , it has a northern border with Andalusia, Spain. The Rock of Gibraltar is the major landmark of the region... - Silene vulgarisSilene vulgarisSilene vulgaris, Silene cucubalus or Bladder Campion is a plant species of the genus Silene of the Pink Family . It is native to Europe, where in some parts it is eaten, but is widespread in North America where it is considered a weed..-Gastronomy:In Spain, the young shoots and the leaves are used...
, or bladder campion, native to Europe but widespread in North America
Business and commerce
- Campion (boats), Canadian manufacturer of boats
- Campion Cycle CompanyCampion Cycle CompanyThe Campion Cycle Company was a British bicycle, cyclecar and motor cycle maker, active from 1901 to 1926 and based in Nottingham, England.In 1927 it was purchased by currys...
, a British maker of cycles, motorcycles and cars between 1901 and 1926.
Places
- Campion, ColoradoCampion, ColoradoCampion is an unincorporated community in Larimer County, Colorado, United States. The population was 1,832 at the 2000 census, at which time it was a census-designated place ; the community was not enumerated separately in the 2010 census. Located between Loveland and Berthoud along U.S. Route...
, United States - Campion Air Force StationCampion Air Force StationCampion Air Force Station is a closed United States Air Force General Surveillance Radar station. It is located east-southeast of Galena, Alaska....
, Alaska. Located on the Yukon River near Galena, Alaska
Education
- Campion CollegeCampion CollegeCampion College is an Australian Roman Catholic dedicated Liberal Arts college. It is a located at Austin Woodbury Place, Old Toongabbie in the western suburbs of Sydney, approximately 45 minutes from the central business district of Sydney, Australia. It is the first tertiary educational Liberal...
, Old Toongabbie, Australia - Campion CollegeCampion College, JamaicaCampion College, is a co-educational Jesuit high school in Kingston, Jamaica. The school is known for its outstanding academic and sporting contributions to the island of Jamaica and the world. The institution is making preparations to celebrate its 50th anniversary upcoming in the year 2010...
, Kingston, JamaicaKingston, JamaicaKingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island. It faces a natural harbour protected by the Palisadoes, a long sand spit which connects the town of Port Royal and the Norman Manley International Airport to the rest of the island... - Campion College (Regina, Canada)
- Campion College, GisborneCampion College, GisborneCampion College, Gisborne is an integrated, co-educational college located in Gisborne, New Zealand including students from Year 7 to Year 13 . The college received its name from its patron saint, St Edmund Campion whose feast day is 1 December. Students have the opportunity to study Religious...
- Campion Hall, OxfordCampion Hall, OxfordCampion Hall is one of the Permanent Private Halls of the University of Oxford in England. It is one of the smallest constituent institutions of the university, consisting of under forty members....
- Campion School (disambiguation)Campion School (disambiguation)Campion School may refer to:*Campion School, Mumbai, India*Campion High School, Wisconsin, USA*Campion Anglo-Indian Higher Secondary School, Tamil Nadu, India*Campion School *Campion School , England*Campion School, Hornchurch, England...
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Fiction
- Albert CampionAlbert CampionAlbert Campion is a fictional character in a series of detective novels and short stories by Margery Allingham. He first appeared as a supporting character in The Crime at Black Dudley , an adventure story involving a ring of criminals, and would go on to feature in another 17 novels and over 20...
, a fictional detective - Campion Bond, a minor character in the comic versions of The League of Extraordinary GentlemenThe League of Extraordinary GentlemenThe League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a comic book series written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Kevin O'Neill, publication of which began in 1999. The series spans two six-issue limited series and a graphic novel from the America's Best Comics imprint of Wildstorm/DC, and a third miniseries...
- Campion (Watership Down), a rabbit from the novel Watership Down by Richard Adams
- Theron Campion (The Fall of the Kings), one of the two pivotal characters in Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman's "The Fall of the Kings"
- Campion, one of the protagonists of the Alastair ReynoldsAlastair ReynoldsAlastair Preston Reynolds is a British science fiction author. He specialises in dark hard science fiction and space opera. He spent his early years in Cornwall, moved back to Wales before going to Newcastle, where he read physics and astronomy. Afterwards, he earned a PhD from St Andrews, Scotland...
novel House of SunsHouse of SunsHouse of Suns is a 2008 science fiction novel by Welsh author Alastair Reynolds . He announced the title on June 7, 2007, when he was about halfway through writing it...
. - The Campion virus that causes the "zombie apocalypse" on the website Lostzombies.com