Magna
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Companies, products and institutions

  • Magna (bicycle company)
    Magna (bicycle company)
    Magna is an American bicycle brand owned by Dynacraft BSC. Magna bikes are produced in China and are sold in American retail stores like Target and Wal-Mart.-Bicyles:Magna offers bicycles in many different colors and sizes from child to adult...

    , an American bicycle brand
  • Magna International
    Magna International
    Magna International Inc. , is an automotive supplier headquartered in Aurora, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's largest automobile parts manufacturer, and one of the country's largest companies. It owns the Magna Steyr automobile production company of Austria....

    , Canada's largest automobile parts manufacturer
    • Magna Steyr
      Magna Steyr
      Magna Steyr Fahrzeugtechnik AG & Co KG is an automobile manufacturer based in Oberwaltersdorf, Austria, with its primary manufacturing location in Graz...

      , a subsidiary
  • Magna Natural Stone, Germanys biggest producer of natural stones
  • Magna (paint), the world's first artist acrylic paint
  • Honda Magna
    Honda Magna
    The first generation 1982 V45 Magna had chrome headlight and fenders. The front disc brakes have straight grooves, dual piston calipers, and TRAC anti-dive. The speedometer reads 80 mph. The redline is 10,000 rpm. The engine is a 748 cc DOHC 16-valve liquid-cooled 90 degree V-4...

    , a motorcycle
  • Mitsubishi Magna
    Mitsubishi Magna
    The Mitsubishi Magna was a mid-size car offered between May 1985 and September 2005 by Mitsubishi Motors Australia Limited . Manufactured at the Tonsley Park assembly plant, Magna spanned three generations before being replaced by the Mitsubishi 380...

    , a car built by Mitsubishi Motors of Australia
  • Magna Corporation
    Magna Corporation
    Magna Corporation was a publicly-held company in Flowood, Mississippi, U.S.A. that served as a holding company. Its primary divisions were Mississippi Steel and Magna American Mississippi Steel was Mississippi's first steel manufacturer beginning operations in 1957...

    , a film distributing organization primarily associated with Rodgers and Hammerstein films
  • Magna Doodle
    Magna Doodle
    Magna Doodle is the original product name of a children's magnetic drawing toy, consisting of a drawing board, a magnetic stylus, and a few magnet shapes...

    , a children's magnetic drawing toy
  • Magna BSP, an Israel
    Israel
    The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

    i maker of security products
  • Magna Carta Records
    Magna Carta Records
    Magna Carta Records is an independent record label located in Rochester, New York. Magna Carta was formed in 1989 and is owned by Peter Morticelli and his partner Mike Varney. The label has a diverse line-up consisting of musicians from many different genres, but is best known for many of its...

    , an independent record label
  • Magna Entertainment Corp., a gaming and horse racing company
  • Magna Græcia University, a university located in Catanzaro, Italy
  • Magna Pacific
    Magna Pacific
    Magna Pacific is a leading independent film and home entertainment distributor headquartered in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, operating within Australia and New Zealand...

    , an entertainment distributor
  • Magna Vista High School (Virginia), a comprehensive public high school in Henry County, Virginia
  • Villa Magna Condominiums
    Villa Magna Condominiums
    The Villa Magna Condominium Complex is an urban development that is planned to rise in downtown Miami, Florida. It was approved in 2006 by the city council and the Federal Aviation Administration and construction is slated to begin in April 2007. The ending date has been approximated and has been...

    , an urban development that is planned to rise in downtown Miami, Florida

Place names

  • Magna, Utah
    Magna, Utah
    Magna is a census-designated place and township in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. The population was 26,505 at the 2010 census, a moderate increase over the 2000 figure of 22,770...

    , a census-designated place and township in Salt Lake County, Utah
  • Magna Science Adventure Centre
    Magna Science Adventure Centre
    Magna Science Adventure Centre is an educational visitor attraction, appealing primarily to children. It is located in a disused steel mill in the Templeborough district of Rotherham, England. The site is formerly home to the Steel, Peech and Tozer steel works...

    , an educational visitor attraction in Rotherham, England
  • Leptis Magna
    Leptis Magna
    Leptis Magna also known as Lectis Magna , also called Lpqy, Neapolis, Lebida or Lebda to modern-day residents of Libya, was a prominent city of the Roman Empire. Its ruins are located in Khoms, Libya, east of Tripoli, on the coast where the Wadi Lebda meets the sea...

  • Villa Magna
    Villa Magna
    Villa Magna is the ancient name of a large imperial Roman villa near the modern town of Anagni, in Lazio, central Italy. The site lies in the Valle del Sacco some 65 km south of Rome, at the foot of the Monti Lepini, directly under the peak known as Monte Giuliano...

    , the ancient name of a large imperial Roman villa near the modern town of Anagni
  • Magna Graecia
    Magna Graecia
    Magna Græcia is the name of the coastal areas of Southern Italy on the Tarentine Gulf that were extensively colonized by Greek settlers; particularly the Achaean colonies of Tarentum, Crotone, and Sybaris, but also, more loosely, the cities of Cumae and Neapolis to the north...

    , the name of the coastal areas of Southern Italy on the Tarentine Gulf that were extensively colonized by Greek settlers
  • Magna Curia
    Magna Curia
    Magna Curia or The Bethlen Castle is a palace located in Deva, Romania.-History:In 1582 the hungarian captain Ferenc Geszty, in charge with the Deva Castle's garrison, erected a house at the foot of the citadel hill...

    , a palace located in Deva, Romania

Place names in England

  • Chew Magna
    Chew Magna
    Chew Magna is a village and civil parish within the Chew Valley in the Unitary Authority of Bath and North East Somerset, in the Ceremonial county of Somerset, England. The parish has a population of 1,161.To the south of the village is Chew Valley Lake...

  • Wigston Magna
    Wigston Magna
    Wigston Magna also historically referred to as Wigston Two Steeples or Great Wigston , is a town within Leicestershire, England just to the south of Leicester, on the A5199 road which leads to Northampton....

  • Appleby Magna
    Appleby Magna
    Appleby Magna is a village and civil parish in the district of North West Leicestershire, England.The civil parish, as well as Appleby Magna, includes the small Hamlet of Appleby Parva and the Villages of Norton-Juxta-Twycross, Snarestone and Swepstone...

  • Upton Magna
    Upton Magna
    Upton Magna is a village in Shropshire, England.Magna is latin meaning "great". Therefore the translation of Upton Magna is "Great Upton".Nearby are the villages of Uffington, Rodington, Withington and the wooded Haughmond Hill....

  • Thornham Magna
    Thornham Magna
    Thornham Magna is the sister village of Thornham Parva, about 3.5 miles from Eye, Suffolk and close to the A140 main road from Norwich to Ipswich, the county towns of Norfolk and Suffolk....

  • Harborough Magna
    Harborough Magna
    Harborough Magna is a village and parish in Warwickshire, England.Along with the adjoining hamlet of Harborough Parva and nearby Cathiron, the parish has a population of 461 ....

  • Canford Magna
    Canford Magna
    Canford Magna is a village in Dorset, England. The village is situated just south of the River Stour and lies in between the towns of Wimborne Minster and Poole. The village is the site of the large boarding school - Canford School. The school was previously the mansion and estate of Lord Wimborne....


  • Fontmell Magna
    Fontmell Magna
    Fontmell Magna is a village in north Dorset, England, situated in the Blackmore Vale under Cranborne Chase on the A350 road five miles south of Shaftesbury and eight miles north of Blandford Forum. The village has a population of 671...

  • Marston Magna
    Marston Magna
    Marston Magna is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated north of Yeovil in the South Somerset district...

  • Minterne Magna
    Minterne Magna
    Minterne Magna is a village in west Dorset, England, situated at the source of the River Cerne in the Dorset Downs, on the A352 main road half way between Dorchester and Sherborne. The village has a population of 188 .-Minterne House:...

  • Ashby Magna
    Ashby Magna
    Ashby Magna is a small English village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire. The parish had a population of 294 at the 2001 UK census. It is in the south of the county, and lies midway between junctions 20 and 21 of the M1...

  • Kington Magna
    Kington Magna
    Kington Magna is a village in the Blackmore Vale area of north Dorset, England with a population of 376 . It is west of Shaftesbury, north of Sturminster Newton and east of Sherborne. The village was founded in the twelfth century, but most of the current buildings are no older than the seventeenth...

  • Peatling Magna
    Peatling Magna
    Peatling Magna is a village in south Leicestershire near to Ashby Magna & Peatling Parva and is part of Harborough District.-Church:The church of All Saints is mainly of the 14th and 15th centuries and contains some fine examples of carved woodwork of different periods....

  • Hutton Magna
    Hutton Magna
    Hutton Magna is a village in Teesdale, in the Pennines of England. It was historically located in the North Riding of Yorkshire but along with the rest of the former Startforth Rural District it was transferred to County Durham for administrative and ceremonial purposes on 1 April 1974, under the...


  • Fakenham Magna
    Fakenham Magna
    Fakenham Magna is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located on the A1088 around eight miles north-east of Bury St Edmunds and four miles south-east of Thetford, in 2005 its population was 160....

  • Copston Magna
    Copston Magna
    Copston Magna is a small village and civil parish in Warwickshire, England. In the 2001 census it had a population of 38.Copston Magna is located around one mile from the border with Leicestershire, close to the ancient site of High Cross...

  • Magna Carta Island
    Magna Carta Island
    Magna Carta Island is an island in the River Thames in England, on the reach above Bell Weir Lock. It is in Berkshire across the river from the water-meadows at Runnymede. The island was transferred from Buckinghamshire to Berkshire in 1974....

  • Wenham Magna
    Wenham Magna
    Wenham Magna, also known as Great Wenham, is a village and a civil parish in the Babergh district of Suffolk in eastern England. The parish also contains the hamlets of Vauxhall and Wenham Hill. In 2005 it had a population of 150.-References:...

  • Claybrooke Magna
    Claybrooke Magna
    Claybrooke Magna is a village in South West Leicestershire, England, close to the A5 trunk road.-External links:*...

  • Aston Magna
    Aston Magna
    Aston Magna is a hamlet located off Fosse Way in north Gloucestershire between Moreton-in-Marsh and Shipston-on-Stour.- See also :*Corpse roads...

  • Sheepy Magna


People

  • Plancia Magna
    Plancia Magna
    Plancia Magna was a prominent woman from Anatolia who lived between the 1st century and 2nd century in the Roman Empire.-Ancestry, family, and early life:...

    , a prominent woman from Anatolia
  • Marcus Magna
    Marcus Magna
    Marcus Magna is French professional footballer who plays as a striker.-Career:Born in Paris, Magna formerly played youth football for Bordeaux, before turning professional with Stade Laval. He has also played in Romania for Dinamo Bucureşti and in England for Rochdale.- References :*...

     (born 1988), French professional footballer

Characters

  • Magna Defender
    Magna Defender
    The Magna Defender is a fictional character from the Power Rangers Lost Galaxy TV series. He is a warrior who has been alive for many years, and is the sworn enemy of Scorpius....

    , a fictional character from the Power Rangers Lost Galaxy TV series

Documents

  • Magna Carta
    Magna Carta
    Magna Carta is an English charter, originally issued in the year 1215 and reissued later in the 13th century in modified versions, which included the most direct challenges to the monarch's authority to date. The charter first passed into law in 1225...

    , an English charter originally issued in 1215
  • Ars Magna
    Ars Magna
    Several books are called Ars magna .*Ars Magna *Ars Magna *Ars Magna, the newspaper of Magdalene College, Cambridge...

    • Ars Magna (Gerolamo Cardano)
      Ars Magna (Gerolamo Cardano)
      The Ars Magna is an important book on Algebra written by Gerolamo Cardano. It was first published in 1545 under the title Artis Magnæ, Sive de Regulis Algebraicis Liber Unus . There was a second edition in Cardano's lifetime, published in 1570...

      , a 1545 important book on Algebra written by Gerolamo Cardano
  • Magna Moralia
    Magna Moralia
    The Magna Moralia is a treatise on ethics traditionally attributed to Aristotle, though the consensus now is that it represents an epitome of his ethical thought by a later, if sympathetic, writer. Several scholars have disagreed with this, taking the Magna Moralia to be an authentic work by...

    , a treatise on ethics traditionally attributed to Aristotle
  • Magna Britannia
    Magna Britannia
    Magna Britannia, being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain was an ambitious topographical and historical survey published by the antiquarians Daniel Lysons and his brother Samuel Lysons in several volumes between 1806 and 1822...

    , a 1822 topographical and historical survey

Biology

  • Magna (moth)
    Magna (moth)
    Magna is a genus of moths of the Micronoctuidae family.-References: 2008: Revision of the Micronoctuidae . Part 2, Taxonomy of the Belluliinae, Magninae and Parachrostiinae. 1867: 1-136....

    , a genus of moths of the Micronoctuidae family
  • Cisterna magna
    Cisterna magna
    The cisterna magna is one of three principal openings in the subarachnoid space between the arachnoid and pia mater layers of the meninges surrounding the brain. The openings are collectively referred to as cisterns. The cisterna magna is located between the cerebellum and the dorsal surface of...

    , one of three principal openings in the subarachnoid space between the arachnoid and pia mater layers of the meninges surrounding the brain
  • Lacuna magna
    Lacuna magna
    In male anatomy, the lacuna magna is the largest of several recesses in the roof of the navicular fossa of the urethra. Its embryologic origin is contested, but recent evidence suggests it and the navicular fossa derive from infiltrating endodermal cells of the urethral plate...

    , the largest of several recesses in the roof of the navicular fossa of the urethra

Other

  • Magna-Fi
    Magna-Fi
    -VerseChorusKillMe:VerseChorusKillMe is the second album of Magna-Fi.-Singles:*Where Did We Go Wrong*Down In It*Who I Am*Kiss It Away*Breaking Up*Save Me*Me The Enemy*Hey, Loser!*Hearts and Minds-Gameography:...

    , a band
  • Magna cum laude, a Latin phrase used to indicate the level of distinction with which an academic degree was earned
  • IG-100 MagnaGuards, the Guards of General Grievous in the Star Wars Series
  • Magna Carta (band)
    Magna Carta (band)
    Magna Carta is a folk rock group originally formed in London in April 1969; their first concert was on 10 May 1969, by Chris Simpson , Lyell Tranter , and Glen Stuart ....

    , a folk rock group
  • Magna Mater (disambiguation)
    Magna Mater (disambiguation)
    Magna Mater means "Great Mother" in Latin. It may be specifically referring to:* The Roman title of the goddess Cybele* A title of the goddess Maia * Magna Mater...

    , Latin for Great Mother

See also

  • Magnum (disambiguation), of which a rare plural form is magna
  • Magnus (disambiguation)
    Magnus (disambiguation)
    Magnus is a given name and surname.Magnus may also refer to:* Magnus , a Belgian band* Magnus , a fictionalised account of the life of Magnus Erlendsson by George Mackay Brown...

  • Magnis (disambiguation)
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