Leda
Encyclopedia
Places
- Leda (river), tributary of the Ems in Germany
- Leda, Western AustraliaLeda, Western AustraliaLeda is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the Town of Kwinana. Leda is one of the five main suburbs of Kwinana.Leda is one of the Kwinana suburbs named after a ship. The brig Leda brought settlers to the new Swan River Colony in January 1830...
, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia - Leda, Burkina FasoLeda, Burkina FasoLeda is a town in the Tenkodogo Department of Boulgou Province in south-eastern Burkina Faso. As of 2005, the town has a population of 1,591....
Astronomy
- Leda (moon)Leda (moon)Leda , also known as ', is a prograde irregular satellite of Jupiter. It was discovered by Charles T. Kowal at the Mount Palomar Observatory on September 14, 1974, after three nights' worth of photographic plates had been taken...
, a moon of Jupiter - 38 Leda38 Leda38 Leda is a large, dark main-belt asteroid.It was discovered by J. Chacornac on January 12, 1856, and named after Leda, the mother of Helen of Troy in Greek mythology.Leda is also the name of a satellite of Jupiter and a catalogue of galaxies....
, an asteroid - LEDA, the Lyon-Meudon Extragalactic Database, an astronomical catalog of galaxies
Computing
- LEDA, the Library of Efficient Data types and Algorithms
- Leda programming languageLeda programming languageLeda is a multiparadigm programming language whose goal is to successfully mix imperative, object-oriented, functional, and logic-based programming features into one language....
Entertainment
- Leda and the SwanLeda and the SwanLeda and the Swan is a motif from Greek mythology in which Zeus came to Leda in the form of a swan. According to later Greek mythology, Leda bore Helen and Polydeuces, children of Zeus, while at the same time bearing Castor and Clytemnestra, children of her husband Tyndareus, the King of Sparta. In...
, a poem by William Butler Yeats - Leda, the Swiss MilkmaidLeda, the Swiss MilkmaidLydia, the Swiss Milkmaid is a Demi-Caractère ballet in 2 acts, with choreography by Filippo Taglioni, and music by Adalbert Gyrowetz....
, a Demi-Caractère ballet - Leda Serene FilmsLeda Serene FilmsLeda Serene Films is a film, television, and theatre production company based in Toronto, Canada, owned by filmmaker and producer Frances-Anne Solomon....
, a film, television, and theatre production company based in Toronto, Canada - Genmu Senki Leda, a 1985 Japanese animated movie
Ships
- Leda-class frigateLeda class frigateThe Leda-class frigates, were a successful class of forty-seven British Royal Navy 38-gun sailing frigates. The design of Leda was based on the Sané-designed Hébé, a French Hébé class frigate that the British 44-gun fifth rate HMS Rainbow captured in 1782...
, a type of frigate in the British Royal Navy - HMS LedaHMS LedaHMS Leda may refer to one of the following ships of the British Royal Navy named after the Leda of Greek mythology:, a 36-gun fifth-rate launched in 1783 and foundered 1796, a 38-gun fifth-rate launched 1800 and wrecked 1808, a 36-gun fifth-rate launched 1809 and sold 1817, a 46-gun fifth-rate...
, the name of six ships of the British Royal Navy - TS LedaTS LedaThe North Sea ferry TS Leda was operated by Bergen Line between Britain and Norway for over 20 years. In 1981 she was rebuilt as a cruise liner and later became an accommodation vessel at a penal colony for terrorists and members of the Mafia...
, North Sea ferry
Other
- Leda (mythology)Leda (mythology)In Greek mythology, Leda was daughter of the Aetolian king Thestius, and wife of the king Tyndareus , of Sparta. Her myth gave rise to the popular motif in Renaissance and later art of Leda and the Swan...
, queen of Sparta - Leda CosmidesLeda CosmidesLeda Cosmides, is an American psychologist, who, together with anthropologist husband John Tooby, helped develop the field of evolutionary psychology....
, (born May 7, 1957), an American psychologist - Leda clay, also called quick clay, a unique form of marine clay
- Leda, a character portrayed by Christine Halford in the Battlestar GalacticaBattlestar Galactica (1978 TV series)Battlestar Galactica is an American science fiction television series, created by Glen A. Larson. It starred Lorne Greene, Richard Hatch and Dirk Benedict and ran for one season in 1978–79. After cancellation, its story was continued in 1980 as Galactica 1980 with Adama, Lieutenant Boomer and...
episode "Gun on Ice Planet ZeroGun on Ice Planet Zero"Gun on Ice Planet Zero" is a two-part episode of the original Battlestar Galactica television series. Robert Thurston adapted the screenplay into a novel he titled The Cylon Death Machine.-Summary:...
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