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Helicon or Helikon may refer to

Places

  • Helicon (river), a former river in the Macedonian city Dion, mentioned in Greek mythology
  • Mount Helicon, mountain in Boeotia, Greece
  • "Helikon", an 1893 mansion designed by Charles Slayter in Strathfield, New South Wales
  • Helikon Park, a park in Randfontein Local Municipality, West Rand District Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa
  • Torre Helicon, the fourth tallest building in Monterrey, Mexico
  • Helicon Home Colony, an experimental community formed by author Upton Sinclair in Englewood, New Jersey

Arts and entertainment

  • Heliconian Club, Toronto women's arts society

Literature

  • Englands Helicon, an anthology of Elizabethan pastoral poems published in 1600
  • Helicon (planet), a fictional planet in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series

Music

  • Helicon (instrument), a brass musical instrument in the tuba family
  • Helicon Mountain, studio of Jools Holland
  • Helicon, a 1977 album by The Four Seasons
  • Helicon Records, a record label founded in Israel in 1985
  • "Helicon 1" and "Helicon 2", songs by the Scottish post-rock band Mogwai
  • Helikon, a 1952 piano concerto by Mikis Theodorakis
  • Helikon Opera, a Moscow-based opera company
  • TC-Helicon, a Canadian audio equipment manufacturer
  • Helicon Blue, a Canadian three piece band that included Dallas Green (musician)

Science and technology

Software

  • Helicon Filter, a photo editing program
  • Helicon Photo Safe, a digital image organization tool
  • Helicon Ape, an ASP.NET module to introduce Apache functionality on IIS web servers

Other uses in science and technology

See also

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