Calypso (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Calypso (; grc-gre, Καλυψώ, "she who conceals") was a nymph who lived on the island of Ogygia, where, according to Homer's ''Odyssey'', she detained Odysseus for seven years. She promised Odysseus immortality if he wo ...
, a nymph who, famously in Homer's ''Odyssey'', kept Odysseus with her on her island of Ogygia for seven years.
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Calypso (nymphs)
In Greek mythology, Calypso (; Ancient Greek: Καλυψώ ''Kalypso'' means 'she who conceals' or 'like the hidden tide') is the name of several nymphs, the most well known being:
* Calypso, the nymph who, in Homer's ''Odyssey'', kept Odysseus ...
, other nymphs called Calypso.
Calypso may also refer to:
Calypso (comics)
Calypso Ezili is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is usually depicted as an enemy of the superhero Spider-Man. She is a voodoo priestess who utilizes magic potions, and the occasional love ...
, Marvel Comics character
* Calypso, Camp Half-Blood Chronicles
Companies and brands
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Calypso (camera)
The self-contained amphibious underwater Calypso 35mm film camera was conceived by the marine explorer Jacques Cousteau (1910–1997), designed by Jean de Wouters and manufactured by Atoms in France. It was distributed by La Spirotechnique in P ...
, an underwater camera — a precursor to the Nikonos camera
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Calypso (electronic ticketing system)
Calypso is an international electronic ticketing standard for microprocessor contactless smart cards, originally designed by a group of transit operators from 11 countries including Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, México, Portug ...
, an electronic ticketing system for public transport
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Calypso (email client)
Courier (also known as Courier Email) was an email client for Microsoft Windows. The software was originally released in 1996 as Calypso by Micro Computer Systems (MCS).
Courier supported the POP3, IMAP and SMTP
The Simple Mail Transfer Pr ...
, later called Courier
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Calypso Park
Calypso Theme Waterpark is a waterpark located in Limoges, Ontario, Canada, about east of Ottawa. The park opened to the public on June 7, 2010.
The park features 35 waterslides, a wave pool (the largest in Canada) and two lazy rivers as well ...
, a Canadian theme waterpark
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Calypso Technology
Adenza Group, Inc. (formerly known as Calypso Technology, Inc.) is a software application provider specializing in Capital Markets, Investment Management, Central Banking, Risk Management, Clearing, Collateral and Treasury & Liquidity. Their int ...
, an American financial services application software company
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Ultracraft Calypso
The Ultracraft Calypso is a family of Belgium, Belgian homebuilt aircraft designed and produced by Ultracraft of Heusden-Zolder, introduced in the 1990s. The aircraft is supplied as a complete ready-to-fly aircraft or as a kit for amateur const ...
, a Belgian light aircraft design
Entertainment
Music
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Calypso music
Calypso is a style of Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago during the early to the mid-19th century and spread to the rest of the Caribbean Antilles and Venezuela by the mid-20th century. Its rhythms can be traced back to We ...
, a genre of Trinidadian folk music
* ''Calypso'' (album), by Harry Belafonte
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Banda Calypso
Banda Calypso was a Brazilian Brega (music), brega pop band, with influences of regional rhythms of the state of Pará. The band was formed in Belém, the state capital, in 1999 by singer/dancer Joelma (singer), Joelma da Silva Mendes and guitaris ...
Spiderbait
Spiderbait is an Australian alternative rock band from Finley, New South Wales, formed in 1991 by bass guitarist and singer Janet English, drummer and singer Kram (musician), Kram, and guitarist Damian Whitty. In 2004 the group's cover version o ...
* "Calypso", a song by
France Gall
Isabelle Geneviève Marie Anne Gall (9 October 1947 – 7 January 2018), known professionally as France Gall, was a French ''yé-yé'' singer. In 1965, aged 17, she won the Eurovision Song Contest for Luxembourg. Between 1973 and 1992, s ...
* "Calypso", a song by Jean-Michel Jarre from ''
Waiting for Cousteau
''En attendant Cousteau'' (English title: ''Waiting for Cousteau'') is the tenth studio album by French electronic musician and composer Jean-Michel Jarre, released on Disques Dreyfus, licensed to Polydor. The album was dedicated to Jacques-Yve ...
''
* "Calypso", a song by Suzanne Vega from ''
Solitude Standing
''Solitude Standing'' is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega, released on April 1, 1987, by A&M Records. It is the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed album of Vega's, being certified Platinum in t ...
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Calypso Crazy
"Calypso Crazy" is a single by British singer Billy Ocean. It is the second single from the singer's seventh studio album, ''Tear Down These Walls'' (1988). Following the successful chart performances of the ''Tear Down These Walls
''Tear D ...
", a single by Billy Ocean from ''
Tear Down These Walls
''Tear Down These Walls'' is the seventh studio album by British recording artist Billy Ocean, released in February 1988 by Jive Records and Arista Records as the follow-up to Ocean's critically and commercially successful 1986 album '' Love ...
Calypso (moon)
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Calypso is a moon of Saturn. It was discovered in 1980, from ground-based observations, by Dan Pascu, P. Kenneth Seidelmann, William A. Baum, and Douglas G. Currie, and was provisionally designated (the 25th satellite of Saturn disco ...
, a natural satellite of Saturn
* ''Calypso'' (plant), an orchid genus containing a single species ''Calypso bulbosa''
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Calypso bean
The Calypso bean, pickle bean, orca bean, or yin yang bean, is a bean cultivar of the species '' Phaseolus vulgaris''.
Characteristics Plant
Calypso beans are a kidney bean hybrid
Hybrid may refer to:
Science
* Hybrid (biology), an offspring ...
, a kidney bean hybrid also known as the pickle bean, orca bean or yin yang bean
Places
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Calypso Cliffs
Calypso Cliffs () are two prominent rocky cliffs rising to on the south side of Mobiloil Inlet immediately west of the mouth of Cronus Glacier, on the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. They were photographed from the air by the United State ...
, rocky cliffs in the
Antarctic Peninsula
The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martín in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctic ...
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Calypso Deep
Calypso Deep, located in the Hellenic Trench, Ionian Sea 62.6 km south-west of Pylos, Greece, is the deepest part of the Mediterranean Sea, with a maximum depth of , at .
Crewed descents
The first crewed descent into Calypso Deep was on 27 Sep ...
, the deepest point of the Mediterranean Sea
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Calypso's Cave
Calypso's Cave ( Maltese: L-ghar ta' Calisso) is a natural cave, located on the western side of the Ramla bay, in Xagħra, Gozo. The cave is alleged to be the one referenced in The Odyssey as the cave where the nymph Calypso kept Odysseus
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, a cave in
Gozo
Gozo (, ), Maltese: ''Għawdex'' () and in antiquity known as Gaulos ( xpu, 𐤂𐤅𐤋, ; grc, Γαῦλος, Gaúlos), is an island in the Maltese archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea. The island is part of the Republic of Malta. After t ...
, Malta
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Calypso, North Carolina
Calypso is a town in Duplin County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 538 at the 2010 census.
History
The Bryan Whitfield Herring Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.
Geography
Calypso is located i ...
, a town in the United States
Ships
* French submarine ''Calypso''
* HMS ''Calypso'', the name of a number of British Royal Navy ships
* MS ''The Calypso'', a cruise ship
* MV ''Calypsoland'', a ferry of E. Zammit & Sons Ltd and later the Gozo Channel Line between 1969 and 1984
* RV ''Calypso'', a 1942 British minesweeper and later an oceanographic research ship operated by Jacques-Yves Cousteau
* UNS ''Calypso'', fictitious starship commanded by the player in the 1994 sci-fi strategy game ''
Alien Legacy
''Alien Legacy'' is a sci-fi strategy game developed by Joe Ybarra, Ybarra Productions and published by Sierra Entertainment, Sierra On-Line in 1994 for MS-DOS.
Gameplay
The game includes elements of city construction, research, resource manage ...
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* USS ''Calypso'', the name of various United States Navy ships
Other
* Calypso, a character from the ''
Twisted Metal
''Twisted Metal'' is a series of vehicular combat video games published by Sony Computer Entertainment, and developed by various companies. The series has appeared on the PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 3. As o ...
'' video game series
* ''Calypso'', a name given by
Sunita Williams
Sunita Lyn Williams (born September 19, 1965) is an American astronaut and United States Navy officer who formerly held the records for most spacewalks by a woman (seven) and most spacewalk time for a woman (50 hours, 40 minutes). Williams was ...
to the
CST-100 Starliner
The Boeing CST-100 Starliner is a class of two partially
spacecraft used for the
Boeing Orbital Flight Test
The Boeing Starliner Orbital Flight Test (also known as Boe-OFT) was the first orbital mission of the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft, conducted by Boeing as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. The mission was planned to be an eight-day test ...
in 2019
Related spellings
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53 Kalypso
Kalypso (minor planet designation: 53 Kalypso) is a large and very dark main belt asteroid that was discovered by German astronomer Robert Luther on April 4, 1858, at Düsseldorf. It is named after Calypso, a sea nymph in Greek mythology, a name ...
, an asteroid
* "Calipso" (song), a 2019 song by Charlie Charles and Dardust featuring Sfera Ebbasta, Mahmood and Fabri Fibra
* CALIPSO, NASA's "Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations" satellite
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Chalypso
The Chalypso was a popular dance from 1958 which arose from the Calypso Craze of 1957 and combined the sounds and feel of the cha-cha-cha and calypso. It was developed and popularized by dancers on ''American Bandstand''. It is among the dances ...
, a dance
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Kalypso Media
Kalypso Media Group is a German video game developer and publisher. Founded in 2006 in Worms, the group includes four companies, in Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States and has studios, Realmforge Studios, Gaming Minds Studios, Clay ...
, a video game developer
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Kalypso (software)
Kalypso is an open source modelling program. It focuses on numerical simulations in water management and ecology such as the generation of inundation and flood risk maps by hydrologic and hydrodynamic models and GIS functionality.
The ''Kalypso ...
, an open source modelling software
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