Argonaut
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Argonaut may refer to:
- An argonaut, a kind of octopus in the genus Argonauta.
- Jason and the Argonauts, sailors in Greek mythology.
- The Argonauts of St. Nicholas, a military order in Naples.
[edit] Vehicles
[edit] Sea vessels
- Argonaut, Simon Lake's first submarine.
- USS Argonaut, the name given to two submarines of the United States Navy.
- HMS Argonaut, the name given to four ships of the Royal Navy.
- a number of French ships, among which
[edit] Other vehicles
- The Argonaut, a passenger train operated by the Southern Pacific railroad between Los Angeles, California and New Orleans, Louisiana.
- The Canadair Argonaut, a Rolls-Royce Merlin engined version of the DC-4 airliner.
- Argonaut, an American automobile manufactured from 1959 to 1963.
[edit] Companies
- Argonaut Games, a British video game company.
- Argonaut a shipbuilding company.
- Argonaut Mine, a defunct gold mine in Jackson, California.
[edit] Other
- The Argonaut class reactor, a type of small nuclear research reactor.
- The Toronto Argonauts, a team in the Canadian Football League.
- The Argonaut is the mascot for the University of West Florida.
- The Argonaut is name of the University of Idaho's student newspaper.
- The Argonaut Conference, held at Yalta in the Crimean Riviera, was the codename for the wartime meeting from February 4, 1945 to February 11, 1945 between the heads of government of the United States (Franklin D. Roosevelt), the United Kingdom (Winston Churchill), and the Soviet Union (Joseph Stalin).
- Argonaute proteins, catalytic components of the complex that mediates RNA interference
