Aquilon is a name derived from
Aquilo, the Latin term for the north-east wind.
Aquilon may also refer to:
Ships
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HMS Aquilon
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HMS Aquilon (1758)
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Spanish ship Aquilon (1754)
The Aquilón was a ship in the Spanish Navy.
History
She and her 11 sister ships were ordered on 15 June 1752 and their keels laid later that year at the Reales Astilleros de Esteiro. She belonged to the series popularly known as the 12 apostles o ...
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French ship Aquilon
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French ship Aquilon (1789)
''Aquilon'' was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
She served off Italy in Vice-Admiral François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers, Brueys' squadron under Captain Antoine-René Thévenard, and took part in the Battle of the Nile, where she ...
Other uses
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L'Aquilon
''L'Aquilon'' is a Canadian weekly community newspaper, which serves the Franco-Ténois community in the Northwest Territories. The newspaper, which publishes 1,000 copies every Friday, operates from offices in Yellowknife
Yellowknife (; ...
, a Canadian weekly newspaper
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SNCASE Aquilon, a series of aircraft produced by the French manufacturer
SNCASE
SNCASE (abbreviated from ''Société nationale des constructions aéronautiques du Sud-Est'') or Sud-Est was a French aircraft manufacturer. The company was formed on February 1, 1937, by the nationalization and merger of Lioré et Olivier, Potez ...
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*The trademark of
KOSEKI Aquila Raphael, the Japanese theatre and film producer
*The poem ''Les Aquilons'' (The North Winds), by the French poet
Joseph Autran
Joseph Autran (20 June 1813 – 6 March 1877) was a French poet.
Biography
Autran was born in Marseille. In 1832 he addressed an ode to Alphonse de Lamartine, who was then at Marseille on his way to the East. Lamartine persuaded the young man's f ...
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*''Les Aquilons'', part 2 of the choral work ''
Les quatre élémens
''Les quatre élémens'' (''The Four Elements''), S.80, is a cycle of four choral pieces by Franz Liszt, to words by Joseph Autran. The cycle was composed in 1844–48, originally with piano accompaniment, later orchestrated. The title is an a ...
'' by
Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt, in modern usage ''Liszt Ferenc'' . Liszt's Hungarian passport spelled his given name as "Ferencz". An orthographic reform of the Hungarian language in 1922 (which was 36 years after Liszt's death) changed the letter "cz" to simpl ...
, based on Autran's poem
*The character
Aquilon in the mythological novels of
Rick Riordan
Richard Russell Riordan Junior (; born June 5, 1964) is an American author, best known for writing the ''Percy Jackson & the Olympians'' series. Riordan's books have been translated into forty-two languages and sold more than thirty million co ...
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*The 3rd generation
CMDB component of the
Quattor project.
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