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Fortuna (
Latin and Spanish: "fortune") can mean:
- Fortuna
Fortuna can mean:*Fortuna, the Roman goddess of luck Geographical*19 Fortuna, asteroid*Fortuna, California, town located on the north coast of California...
, the Roman goddess of luck (from the Greek TycheIn ancient Greek city cults, Tyche was the presiding tutelary deity that governed the fortune and prosperity of a city, its destiny. S...
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Geographical
- 19 Fortuna
19 Fortuna is one of the largest main belt asteroids. It has a composition similar to 1 Ceres: a darkly colored surface that is heavily space weathered with the composition of primitive organic compounds, including tholins....
, asteroid
- Fortuna, California
Fortuna is a city in western-central Humboldt County, California, United States. The population was 10,497 at the 2000 census. The city lies on the northeast shore of the Eel River , and is on U.S...
, town located on the north coast of California
- Fortuna, California, former name of Fargo, California
Fargo is a former settlement in Fresno County, California. It was located on the Southern Pacific Railroad south-southeast of Sanger, at an elevation of 358 feet . Fargo still appeared on maps as of 1923....
- Fortuna, North Dakota
Fortuna is a city in Divide County, North Dakota in the United States. The population was 31 at the 2000 census. Fortuna was founded in 1913. It is near the Canadian border and is the northermost city on U.S...
, town located in the northwest of North Dakota, near the Canadian border.
- Fortuna Air Force Station
Fortuna Air Force Station was an Aircraft Control and Warning facility at approximately 2285' elevation AMSL, located west of Fortuna and north of Alkabo in north-western North Dakota. It was active from 1952 through 1979 as an AC&W facility, and from 1979 through 1984 as a Long-Range Radar ...
, abandoned Air Force Long Range radar site from the Cold War.
- Fortuna (SEPTA station)
Fortuna is a station along the SEPTA Doylestown Line. It is located near the corner of North Broad Street and Cowpath Road in Hatfield Pennsylvania, United States. This station is served by the R5 Regional Rail line.-External links:**...
- Fortuna, Spain, town located in the province of Murcia in Spain
People
- Fortuna (Brazilian singer)
Fortuna is a Brazilian female singer-songwriter, with Jewish background, researcher of Sephardic tradition since 1992.-External links:*...
, a female singer and composer from Brazil of Jewish origin
- Diego Fortuna
Diego Fortuna is a retired discus thrower from Italy, who represented his native country in two consecutive Summer Olympics . He won the men's discus throw event at the 2001 Mediterranean Games, and set his personal best on 2000-06-24 at a meet in Ravenna.-References:*
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, an Italian discus thrower
- Wojciech Fortuna
Wojciech Fortuna is a former Polish ski jumper who won the Olympic Gold Medal in the Large Hill at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo.He competed from 1972 to 1976.-External links:...
, a Polish ski jumper and Olympic gold medallist
- Diego Mazquiarán
Diego Mazquiarán , often called simply Fortuna, was a Spanish matador.-Career:...
, a Spanish matador known as Fortuna
Fiction
- Bib Fortuna, Star Wars character
Sports
- Fortuna Düsseldorf
Fortuna Düsseldorf is a German football club based in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia.-Foundation to World War II:The earliest roots of the association go back to the establishment of the gymnastics club Turnverein Flingern on 5 May 1895 in the village of Flingern, today the northeastern quarter...
- Fortuna Köln
- Fortuna Sittard
Fortuna Sittard is a football club in Sittard, The Netherlands. The club currently plays its football in the 13,000 capacity Wagner & Partners Stadion and features in the Dutch Eerste Divisie. The club was a merger of former clubs 'Fortuna 54' and 'Sittardia' to merge as the Fortuna Sittard...
Other
- Fortuna (PRNG)
Fortuna is a cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator devised by Bruce Schneier and Niels Ferguson. It is named after Fortuna, the Roman goddess of chance.More precisely, Fortuna is a family of secure PRNGs; its design...
, an algorithm for cryptographically secure pseudo-random number generation, design by Niels Ferguson and Bruce Schneier
- Fortuna (cigarette)
Fortuna is a brand of cigarettes owned by Franco-Spanish company Altadis, and hence a sub-section of British tobacco group Imperial Tobacco. Fortuna contains a blend of American tobacco made mainly from Virginia-type tobacco...
, a cigarette brand owned by AltadisAltadis is a multinational purveyor and manufacturer of cigarettes, tobacco and cigars. Altadis is the result of a 1999 merger between Tabacalera, the former Spanish tobacco monopoly and SEITA, the former French tobacco monopoly...
- "O Fortuna
O Fortuna is a medieval Latin Goliardic poem composed early in the thirteenth century, part of the collection known as the Carmina Burana. It is a complaint about fate, and Fortuna, a goddess in Roman mythology, is a personification of luck. In 1935–36 O Fortuna was set to music by the German...
", widely recognizable opening movement of Carl Orff's Carmina BuranaCarmina Burana is a scenic cantata composed by Carl Orff between 1935 and 1936. It is based on 24 of the poems found in the medieval collection Carmina Burana...
- Fortuna, a Spanish ship that wrecked in Wilmington, North Carolina
Wilmington is a city in and the county seat of New Hanover County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 75,838 at the 2000 Census. A July 1, 2008 United States Census Bureau estimate places the population at 100,192...
- A name for bagatelle
Bagatelle is an indoor table game related to billiards, the object of which is to get a number of balls past pins into holes...
, a game developed from billiard