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• Icarus (mythology)
  Icarus (mythology)
  
  Icarus is a character in Greek mythology. He is the son of Daedalus and is commonly known for his attempt to escape Crete by flight, which ended in a fall to his death....
  , the son of Daedalus according to Greek mythology

Geographic features

• Ikaros (town), a settlement in Elis Prefecture
  Elis Prefecture
  
  Ilia is a Prefectures of Greece in the western Peloponnese and in the western part of Greece. The prefecture is part of the Peripheries of Greece of West Greece....
  , Greece
  Greece
  
  Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
  
• Failaka Island
  Failaka Island
  
  Failaka Island is an island that belongs to Kuwait in the Persian Gulf. The island is 20 km off the coast of Kuwait City in the Persian Gulf. It is thought the name "Failaka" is derived from the ancient Greek for outpost, "fylakio"....
  , named "Ikaros" by the Ancient Greeks, an island in Kuwait
  Kuwait
  
  The State of Kuwait is a sovereign Arab emirate on the coast of the Persian Gulf, enclosed by Saudi Arabia to the south and Iraq to the north and west....
  
• 1566 Icarus
  1566 Icarus
  
  1566 Icarus is an Apollo asteroid whose unusual characteristic is that at perihelion it is closer to the Sun than Mercury ; it is said to be a Mercury-crosser asteroid....
  , one of the Apollo asteroids
• Icarus (crater)
  Icarus (crater)
  
  Icarus is a Moon impact crater that lies on the Moon's Far side . It is located to the west of the huge walled plain Korolev , and less than two crater diameters to the east of the crater Daedalus ....
  , a lunar impact crater
  Impact crater
  
  In the broadest sense, the term impact crater can be applied to any depression, natural or manmade, resulting from the high velocity impact of a projectile with larger body....
  

Institutions and companies

• Icarus School, the official name of the Hellenic Air Force Academy
• Ikarus Bus
  Ikarus Bus
  
  Ikarus is a bus manufacturer based in Budapest, Hungary. It was established in 1895 as Uhri Imre Kov?cs- ?s Kocsigy?rt? ?zeme .By 1913, the company focused mainly on constructing cars and due to increased sales during World War I it made great profits....
  , a Hungarian manufacturer of city buses
• Ikarus Prva srpska industrija aeroplana, automobila i strojeva, a Yugoslav - Serbian aircraft manufacturer
• The Icarus Project
  Icarus Project
  
  The Icarus Project is a grassroots network comprised of a National Organizing Collective, autonomous local groups and individuals that are "living with experiences that are commonly labeled as bipolar disorder or related Insanity." It is a mental health movement that advocates that these experiences should be viewed as "dangerous gifts to be...
  , a mental-health organization

Music

• Icarus (2003 album)
  Icarus (2003 album)
  
  Icarus is an album by the band The Forms, produced by Steve Albini and released in 2003....
  , a 2003 musical album by The Forms, a Steve Albini recording project
• Icarus (1973 album), a 1973 musical album by the Paul Winter Consort
  Paul Winter Consort
  
  Paul Winter Consort is an United States musical group led by the soprano saxophone Paul Winter. Founded in 1967, the group mixes elements of classical music, jazz, and world musics, as well as the sounds of animals and nature....
  
• Icarus (band)
  Icarus (band)
  
  Icarus are a band from London, England, who specialise in a kind of electronic music drum and bass with elements of Avant-garde jazz and rich instrumentation....
  , a drum'n'bass band from London, UK
• "Flight of Icarus
  Flight of Icarus
  
  "Flight of Icarus" is a 1983 in music song by Iron Maiden. It is the band's eighth single and the first from the Piece of Mind album. It was the first single by Iron Maiden that was released in the United States....
  ", a 1983 song by British heavy metal band Iron Maiden
• "Icarus Dream Suite", from the 1984's "instrumental" album Rising Force
  Rising Force
  
  Rising Force is a Yngwie J. Malmsteen project as well as his debut solo album released in 1984. It is also the title of a song on Malmsteen's album Odyssey ....
   by Swedish guitar virtuoso Yngwie J. Malmsteen
  Yngwie J. Malmsteen
  
  Yngwie Johan Malmsteen is a Sweden guitarist, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and bandleader. Malmsteen became notable in the mid-1980s for his technical fluency and neo-classical metal compositions....
  
• "Icarus", a 2001 song by Swiss band Flutlicht
  Flutlicht
  
  Flutlicht is the artist name of Switzerland trance music producers Daniel Heinzer and Marco Guardia .The two are most famous for their song Icarus, which came out on Drizzly Records in 2001....
  
• "Icarus", a song by post-hardcore band Alesana
  Alesana
  
  Alesana is a 6-piece United States Post-Hardcore band from Raleigh, North Carolina. Except Shawn Milke who grew up in Prince George, British Columbia, Canada....
  
• "Icarus", a 2008 song by Santogold
  Santogold
  
  Santi White , better known by her former stage name Santogold , is an United States songwriter, record producer, and singer. Her eponymous debut album Santogold was released in 2008....
   from her Top Ranking
  Top Ranking
  
  Top Ranking: A Diplo Dub is a mixtape by United States artist Santigold and Philadelphia-based disc-jockey Diplo, released on July 7, 2008. The mixtape was also available to download for free....
   mixtape
• "La Chûte d'Icare", a piece for solo clarinet and small ensemble by Brian Ferneyhough
  Brian Ferneyhough
  
  Brian John Peter Ferneyhough is an England composer of contemporary classical music. His complex, multi-layered music is always distinctive when performed, and led Pierre Boulez to refer to it as a 'polyphony of polyphonies'....
  
• "Icarus", a 2007 song by The Hours
• "Icaro", (Spanish) a song by Valencia's band Presuntos Implicados

Games

• Icarus (game), an electronic game manufactured by Mandarin Software for the Acorn Electron
  Acorn Electron
  
  The Acorn Electron is a budget version of the BBC Micro educational/home computer made by Acorn Computers Ltd. It has 32 kilobytes of Random Access Memory, and its ROM includes BBC BASIC along with its operating system....
  
• Kid Icarus
  Kid Icarus
  
  is a platform game video game developed by Nintendo R&D1 and published by Nintendo for the Famicom Disk System in 1986 and the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1987....
  , a 1986 video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System
• Pit, the hero of the above game (often confused with the title due to his diminutive stature).
• "Icarus", an AI character in the computer game Deus Ex (see Deus Ex characters
  Major Deus Ex characters
  
  This guide details the role and background information of major characters appearing in the video game Deus Ex....
  )
• Icarus: Sanctuary of the Gods, is a computer game published by JC Research
• Ikarus (chess)
  Ikarus (chess)
  
  Ikarus was the Computer Speed Chess Champion in 2006. It did so by defeating the four-time champion Shredder in the World Computer Speed Chess Championship which took place on May 29, 2006 in Turin....
  , a chess engine
• Icarus was the name of the mother ship
  Mother ship
  
  A mother ship is a vessel or aircraft that carries a smaller vessel or aircraft that operates independently from it. Examples include bomber aircraft converted to carry experimental aircraft to altitudes where they can conduct their research , or ships that carry small submarines to an area of ocean to be explored ....
   in the game "WarHawk
  Warhawk
  
  A War Hawk is a person who actively supports a war. It can also refer to:*Warhawk , a vertically-scrolling video game, released by Firebird software...
  " for the first Sony Playstation.

Other media

• Icarus Theatre Collective
  Icarus Theatre Collective
  
  The Icarus Theatre Collective is a British theatre company. It is a non-profit organization set up to explore the brutal side of contemporary and classical drama....
  
• Icarus (magazine)
  Icarus (magazine)
  
  Icarus is a student literary magazine based in Trinity College, Dublin. It publishes one issue per academic term and accepts submissions of poetry, prose and drama from students, staff and alumni of Dublin University It was founded in 1950 by Alec Reid and has been published with regularity three times a year ever since....
  , a literary magazine based in Trinity College, Dublin
  Trinity College, Dublin
  
  Trinity College, Dublin , corporately designated as the Provost, Fellows and Scholars of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, was founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I of England as the "mother of a university", and is the only constituent residential college of the University of Dublin....
  
• Icarus, a film for which Banks and Wag composed music
• Icarus (comics)
  Icarus (comics)
  
  Icarus , is a fictional character, a Mutant superhero in the Marvel Comics Marvel Universe. He is a member of the student body at the X-Mansion and a member of the former New Mutants squad....
  , a character in Marvel's New X-Men comic book
• Icarus (journal)
  Icarus (journal)
  
  ICARUS, International Journal of Solar System Studies is a premier scientific journal dedicated to the field of planetary science. It is published under the auspices of the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences ....
  , a scientific journal focusing on studies of the Solar System
• The Icarus Agenda
  The Icarus Agenda
  
  The Icarus Agenda is a 1988 thriller novel by bestselling author Robert Ludlum. It is the sequel to The Chancellor Manuscript....
  , thriller novel by Robert Ludlum
  Robert Ludlum
  
  Robert Ludlum was an United States author of 25 Thriller novels. There are more than 290 million copies of his books in print, and they have been translated into 32 languages....
  .
• "Icarus", a character in the animated feature Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland
• "Icarus", a character in Disney's Hercules: The Animated Series
  Hercules: The Animated Series
  
  Hercules is an animated television series based on the Hercules and the Greek mythology Heracles. The series follows teenage Hercules training as a hero as well as trying to adjust to life....
  
• "Icarus", the name of the drug-enhanced racehorse owned by Max Zorin in the James Bond film A View to a Kill
  A View to a Kill
  
  A View to a Kill is the fourteenth spy film of the James Bond James Bond , and the seventh and last to star Roger Moore as the fictional character Secret Intelligence Service agent James Bond ....
  

Fictional ships

• Icarus (The Matrix), a fictional hovercraft ship in the film The Matrix Reloaded
• "Icarus", an orbital superweapon in the James Bond film Die Another Day
  Die Another Day
  
  Die Another Day is the twentieth spy film in the James Bond James Bond , and the fourth and last to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional character Secret Intelligence Service agent James Bond ....
  
• Icarus (fictional spacecraft)
  Icarus (fictional spacecraft)
  
  Icarus is also the name of a spaceship seen in the film Sunshine .'Icarus is a fan designated, non-canonical name of the spacecraft designed by art director William Creber for Planet of the Apes and Escape from the Planet of the Apes ....
  , the acquired name of the spacecraft featured in the original 1968 Planet of the Apes
  Planet of the Apes
  
  Planet of the Apes is a novel by Pierre Boulle, originally published in 1963 in French language as La Plan?te des singes. As :fr:singe means both "ape" and "monkey," Xan Fielding called his translation Monkey Planet....
   film
• "Icarus I" and "Icarus II", spacecraft sent from Earth to the Sun in the film Sunshine
  Sunshine (2007 film)
  
  Sunshine is a 2007 United Kingdom science fiction film directed by Academy Award winning director Danny Boyle and written by Alex Garland about the crew of a spacecraft on a dangerous mission towards the Sun....
  

Software

• Ikaros (simulator), infrastructure for system-level brain modeling and robot control
• Ikarus (knowledge management), knowledge management software
• Ikarus (software)
  Ikarus (software)
  
  Ikarus is a type design and production software developed by URW foundry, for converting existing typefaces and logos into digital format for use on computer driven printing, plotting and sign cutting devices....
  , a piece of German typography software
• Ikarus (Scheme implementation)
  Ikarus (Scheme implementation)
  
  Ikarus Scheme is a free software optimizing incremental compiler for R6RS Scheme that compiles directly to the x86 architecture. Ikarus is the first public implementation of a large part of R6RS, the most recent Scheme standard....
  , a free software optimizing incremental native-code compiler for R6RS Scheme.
• Icarus Verilog
  Icarus Verilog
  
  Icarus Verilog is an implementation of the Verilog hardware description language. It supports the 1995 version of the standard, portions of the 2001 standard, and some extensions....
  , an open source Verilog simulator.
• Icarus (camera calibration and tracking), defunct camera calibration and tracking software from the Applied Interfaces Group at Manchester University.

Other uses

• "Icarus Cup" (French: Coupe Icare
  Coupe Icare
  
  Coupe Icare is an annual festival of free flight held at St Hilaire du Touvet - Lumbin . The festival typically lasts four days and is held in the early autumn....
  ), an annual festival of free flight held at St Hilaire du Touvet - Lumbin (Isère, France)
• "Icarus", the first Greek state-run airline, created in 1930 and quickly insolvent; see History of Olympic Airlines
  Olympic Airlines
  
  Olympic Airlines is the flag carrier airline of Greece, based in Athens. It operates services to 35 domestic destinations and to 39 destinations world-wide....
  
• Icarus, professional wrestler with the Chikara Pro Wrestling
  Chikara Pro Wrestling
  
  CHIKARA is an United States professional wrestling promotion based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Their major events each year include, King of Trios in February, Aniversario in May, Young Lions Cup in June & Torneo Cibernetico in August....
   organization starting in 2003
• Icaros
  Icaros
  
  For the character in Greek mythology see Icarus.Icaros are medicine songs, used as part of the toolkit of Shamans and Curanderos in the Peruvian Amazon Basin....
  , shamanic medicine songs from the Peruvian Amazon
• Operation Ikarus
  Operation Ikarus
  
  Operation Ikarus was a World War II Nazi Germany plan to invade Iceland, which had been occupied by United Kingdom forces during Invasion of Iceland in 1940....
  , a World War II German plan to invade Iceland which was never executed
• Ikarus C42
  Ikarus C42
  
  The Ikarus C42 is a two-seat, fixed tricycle gear, general aviation microlight fixed-wing aircraft, manufactured in Germany by COMCO IKARUS GmbH....
  , a microlight aircraft
• Icarus affair
  Icarus affair
  
  The Icarus affair was an incident involving the murder of two British sailors in Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan in 1867, leading to increased diplomatic tensions between United Kingdom and the Tokugawa shogunate....
  , an incident involving the murder of two British sailors in Nagasaki in 1867
• Icaro Air
  Icaro Air
  
  Icaro Air is an airline based in Quito, Ecuador. It operates domestic passenger services under the name of Icaro Express, as well as fixed-wing and helicopter charters....
  , an Ecuadorian airline
• Icarus (crossword compiler)
• Icarus, an upscale restaurant in Boston
• Icaros(ikaros) a name where they give to pilots of the Greek Airforce.