Moon (disambiguation)
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The word moon refers, among other things, to:
Celestial Bodies:
- A natural satellite of a planet or other celestial body
- When capitalised, the Moon, as Earth's sole natural satellite
- Moon (astrology)
- The Moon (Tarot card)
- Month, the period between successive occurrences of a particular lunar phase, or figuratively, a calendar month ("Moon" and "Month" derive from the same word)
Geography:
- The Moon River (Ontario) in Ontario. See also Moon River (disambiguation).
- Moon Township, Pennsylvania
- Moon-sur-Elle, in the Manche département
- The Mun River in Thailand
People:
- Alan R. Moon, the designer of games such as Ticket to Ride and Elfenland
- Elizabeth Moon, novelist
- Eric Moon, the librarian and editor
- Keith Moon, drummer for rock band The Who
- Robert Charles Moon, English ophthalmologist
- Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church
- Wally Moon, major league baseball player, whose home runs over the close-by left field screen at the Los Angeles Coliseum were referred to as "Moonshots"
- Warren Moon, quarterback in U.S. and Canadian football
- William Moon, the inventor of Moon type (see below)
- William Least Heat-Moon, writer
Fictional characters:
- Alfie Moon, Danny Moon, Jake Moon, Kat Moon, Liza Moon, Maxwell Moon, Spencer Moon and Victoria Moon, from the TV series EastEnders.
- Daphne Moon, from the TV series Frasier.
- Moonbeam McSwine, from the comic strip Li'l Abner
Chicago columnist Mike Royko dubbed California politician Jerry Brown as "Governor Moonbeam" in reference to some ideas that Royko considered "far out".
The verb to moon 'expose to moonlight' and the metaphor moon for buttocks existed for centuries before US student slang combined them in a new sense of the verb, Mooning or "Shooting the Moon", the act of publicly displaying one's bare buttocks.
Some wags in the golden age of radio made fun of the stoutly-built singing star Kate Smith, for the fact that her radio theme song was "When the Moon Comes over the Mountain".
Other:
- MOON, an album by J-Rock singer Gackt
- Moon Handbooks, a series of travel guides by Avalon Publishing Group
- Moon type, a writing system for the blind
- Battle Moons, powerful weapons systems of planet Rock in Shadow Raiders
- Moon Motor Car, an US-American car company
- "The Moon", a song by Cat Power from her 2006 album The Greatest
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