Arco may refer to:
Places
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Arco, Trentino
Arco is a ''comune'' in Trentino-Alto Adige in northern Italy.
The town is faced on one side by sheer limestone cliffs jutting up like a wall protecting it and its ancient hilltop castle.
King Francis II of the Two Sicilies died here in 1894.
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, a town in Trentino, Italy
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Arco, Idaho, in the United States
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Arco, Minnesota, a city in the United States
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ARCO Arena in Sacramento, California, home of the Sacramento Kings
Companies
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ARCO (brand), a brand of gasoline service stations that is currently owned by Marathon Petroleum in Mexico and parts of the United States
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ARCO Chemical, a chemical company formed in 1986 by spinning off a subsidiary from the Atlantic Richfield Company
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ARCO Group
ARCO Group is a Belgian cooperative holding group, and part of the Catholic workers organisation Beweging.net formerly known as ACW. The group has more than 900,000 shareholders and a capital of 4.5 billion euro. ''Arcofin'' invests in the finan ...
, a Belgian cooperative holding company
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Arco Publishing, an American publishing company founded in New York in 1942
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Atlantic Richfield Company
ARCO ( ) is a brand of gasoline stations currently owned by Marathon Petroleum after BP sold its rights. BP commercializes the brand in Northern California, Oregon and Washington, while Marathon has rights for the rest of the United States an ...
, the Atlantic Richfield Company, formerly an independent American petroleum company (1966-2000), currently a subsidiary of BP
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ARCO Solar, a former subsidiary of the Atlantic Richfield Company that manufactured
Music
* ''Arco'', a directive in music for string instruments to return to bowing after playing pizzicato; see
bowing
Bowing (also called stooping) is the act of lowering the torso and head as a social gesture in direction to another person or symbol. It is most prominent in Asian cultures but it is also typical of nobility and aristocracy in many European coun ...
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Associate of the Royal College of Organists
The Royal College of Organists (RCO) is a charity and membership organisation based in the United Kingdom, with members worldwide. Its role is to promote and advance organ playing and choral music, and it offers music education, training and dev ...
, a professional diploma for church organists awarded by the Royal College of Organists
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Arco (band)
Arco are a British band noted for unusually slow, quiet, poetic music: a gig review in national newspaper ''The Guardian'' suggested "an hour in arco's company is the aural equivalent of a day in a flotation tank". Similarly, a review in '' Q'' ...
, a British slowcore band
People
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Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley
Anton von Padua Alfred Emil Hubert Georg Graf von Arco auf Valley (5 February 1897 – 29 June 1945), commonly known as Anton Arco-Valley, was a German far-right activist, Bavarian nationalism, Bavarian nationalist and nobleman. He assassina ...
(1897–1945), commonly known as Anton Arco-Valley, murdered Kurt Eisner
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Georg von Arco
Georg Wilhelm Alexander Hans Graf von Arco (30 August 1869 in Großgorschütz – 5 May 1940 in Berlin) was a German physicist, radio pioneer, and one of the joint founders of the "''Society for Wireless Telegraphy''" which became the Telefu ...
(1869–1940), early wireless pioneer
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Jean Baptist, Comte d'Arco
Jean Baptist, Comte d'Arco (German Johann Baptist, Graf von Arco) (c. 1650 – 21 March 1715, Munich) was a diplomat and Generalfeldmarschall in the service of the Electorate of Bavaria during the Great Turkish War and the War of the Spanish Succ ...
(c. 1650–1715), a diplomat and Generalfeldmarschall
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Johann Philipp d'Arco
Johann Philipp d'Arco, Count of Arco (11 May 1652 – 18 February 1704) was a soldier who served the Habsburg monarchy for 30 years. Because he surrendered the fortress of Breisach after only 13 days, he was sentenced to death and executed. A dif ...
(1652–1704), a soldier who served Habsburg Austria
Other uses
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''Arco'' (ARDM-5), a type of U.S. Navy floating drydock
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Arco (lamp)
The Arco lamp is a modern overhead lamp designed by brothers Pier Giacomo and Achille Castiglioni for Flos in 1962. The lamp is characterized by a suspended spun aluminum pendant attached to an upright slab of Carrara marble via a large, arching ...
, a 1962 design, subject of 2006 intellectual property dispute
* A shortened form of
arcology
* A male given name in the Netherlands, for example:
Arco Jochemsen
Arco Jochemsen (born 21 February 1971) is a retired Dutch football striker.
Honours
Utrecht
*KNVB Cup
The KNVB Beker (; en, KNVB Cup), branded as the TOTO KNVB Beker for sponsorship reasons, is a competition in the Netherlands organized by th ...
, a Dutch footballer
See also
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El Arco (disambiguation)
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Arko (disambiguation)
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