Janus
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Janus may refer to:
- Janus (mythology), the two-faced god of gates, doors, doorways, beginnings, and endings in Roman mythology
- Janus (moon), a moon of Saturn
- Janus Patera, a shallow volcanic crater on Io, a moon of Jupiter
- Janus (simulation), a military combat simulation first developed in the late 1970s by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Combat Simulation Laboratory
- Society of Janus, a San Francisco based BDSM education and support group
- Janus Capital Group, an investment company based in Denver, Colorado
- Zündapp Janus, a bubble car model by Zündapp
- a Janus word, or auto-antonym: a word with two opposite meanings
- Janus (television series), A television series created by the Australian Broadcasting Commission with two story lines: the criminal family being prosecuted and the police/judicial process
- Schempp-Hirth Janus, a two-seater glider
People:
- Janus of Cyprus, king of Cyprus from 1398 to 1432
- Janus I, Duke of Masovia
- Janus II, Duke of Masovia
- Janus Junius Toland, a sobriquet of pantheist philosopher John Toland
- Janus Ulitius, the latinized name of 17th century philologist Jan van Vliet
- Janus Friis, the Danish entrepreneur best known for co-founding the file-sharing application KaZaA and Skype, the peer-to-peer telephony application
- Janus (Paul Kelly), an English professional wrestler
In computing:
- Janus (programming language)
- Janus (codename), a Microsoft codename for a beta version of Windows 3x
- Janus (DRM), a Digital Rights Management platform of Microsoft
In music and film:
- Janus Films, an American film distribution company
- Janus Records, a record label
- Janus (band), a musical group rooted in Louisville Kentucky created in the summer of 2005 by friends Mark Dorf and Cory Zimmerman[1]
- Janus (German band), an orchestral darkwave group
- Janus, the criminal organization in the James Bond movie GoldenEye
In literature and comics:
- Janus (comics), a superhero in the DC Comics universe
- The Janus Directive, a DC Comics crossover
- Janus, another comic book superhero, from the Marvel Comics universe and an enemy of Dracula
- Janus (Stargate), an Ancient scientist in the fictional series of Stargate Atlantis and Stargate SG-1
- Janus (Angels and Demons), Janus the antagonist in the novel Angels and Demons
- Janus, a French poetry magazine published in Paris by Elliott Stein from 1950 to 1961
In games:
- Janus Zeal, a character in the game Chrono Trigger
- Janus chess, a chess variant
In geography:
- Janus Island, in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica
- Janus Lake (Ontario), in Ontario, Canada
- Janus Lake (Washington), in Snohomish County, Washington
- Mont Janus, in France
- Mount Janus (Antarctica), in Antarctica
- Mount Janus (Newfoundland), in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
- Mount Janus (Svalbard), in Svalbard, Norway.
- Janus Peak, in British Columbia, Canada
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