Felix may refer to:
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Felix (name)
Felix is a given name that stems from Latin (genitive ) and means "happy" or "lucky". Its other form is Felicity (given name), Felicity.
In German, Dutch, Czech, Slovenian, Romanian and Scandinavian languages the form "Felix" is the same as E ...
, people and fictional characters with the name
Places
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Arabia Felix
Arabia Felix (literally: Fertile/Happy Arabia; also Ancient Greek: Εὐδαίμων Ἀραβία, ''Eudaemon Arabia'') was the Latin name previously used by geographers to describe South Arabia, or what is now Yemen.
Etymology
The term Arabia ...
is the ancient Latin name of Yemen
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Felix, Spain
Felix () is a municipality of Almería province, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain.
Demographics
References
External links
* Felix
Felix may refer to:
* Felix (name), people and fictional characters with the name
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, a municipality of the province Almería, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain
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St. Felix, Prince Edward Island, a rural community in Prince County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
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Felix, Ontario
Felix is an unincorporated place and railway point in geographic Marshay Township in the Unorganized North Part of Sudbury District in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. The community is on Ningoowaswi Lake in the Wanapitei River system, part of the G ...
, an unincorporated place and railway point in Northeastern Ontario, Canada
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St. Felix, South Tyrol
St. Felix (Italian ''San Felice'') is a village in South Tyrol, Italy, and is together with Unsere Liebe Frau im Walde one of the two fractions of the municipality Unsere liebe Frau im Walde-St. Felix.
The village is situated 1265 meters above ...
, a village in South Tyrol, in northern Italy.
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Felix, California
Felix is an unincorporated community in Calaveras County, California, in Salt Spring Valley
Salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl), a chemical compound belonging to the larger class of salts; salt in the form of ...
, an unincorporated community in Calaveras County
Music
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Felix (band)
* ''For the performer of the 1992 dance hit "Don't You Want Me" see Felix (musician)''
Felix were a British chamber pop musical group, whose members included Lucinda Chua, Chris Summerlin and Elv Beetham. In 2009, Felix signed to Chicago-based l ...
, a British band
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Felix (musician)
Felix (born Francis Reuben Wright) is a British producer and DJ. He is known for his hit track "Don't You Want Me" and his underground house project "The Party Crashers".
Life and career
Felix was born in Chelmsford, Essex. His passion for mu ...
, British DJ
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Félix Award
The Félix Award (french: Trophée Félix or Prix Félix) is an award, given by the ''Association du disque, de l'industrie du spectacle québécois'' (ADISQ) on an annual basis to artists working in the music and humor industry in the Canadian p ...
, a Quebec music award named after Félix Leclerc
Business
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Felix (pet food)
Felix is an English brand of cat food currently owned by Nestlé Purina PetCare. It produces wet and dry food in both pouches and tins as well as dry cat biscuits and treats. The brand's mascot, since 1989, is a black and white cat named "Felix ...
, a brand of cat food sold in most European countries
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AB Felix
AB Felix was a Swedish food company with seat in Eslöv. Felix was a part of Orkla since 1995. Its main products were produced from potatoes and pickles.
The company was founded by Herbert Felix (1908-1973) who arrived in Sweden 1938 as a refugee ...
, a Swedish food company
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of Derbyshire, England
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Felix Airways
Felix Airways Limited, also known as Al Saeeda, (both meaning "Happy," from the Roman term for Yemen, Arabia Felix) is a regional airline based in Sana'a, Yemen.
History
The airline was established in 2008 as a subsidiary of flag carrier Yemeni ...
, an airline based in Yemen
Science and technology
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Apache Felix
Apache Felix is an open source implementation of the OSGi Core Release 6 framework specification. The initial codebase was donated from the Oscar project at ObjectWeb. The developers worked on Felix for a full year and have made various improveme ...
, an open source OSGi framework by Apache Software Foundation
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1664 Felix, an asteroid
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Free-electron laser
A free-electron laser (FEL) is a (fourth generation) light source producing extremely brilliant and short pulses of radiation. An FEL functions and behaves in many ways like a laser, but instead of using stimulated emission from atomic or molecula ...
for infrared experiments (FELIX), a type of laser
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FELIX (experiment)
The Free-orbit Experiment with Laser Interferometry X-Rays (FELIX) belongs to a category of experiments exploring whether macroscopic systems can be in Quantum superposition, superposition states. It was originally proposed by the physicist Roger P ...
, a Roger Penrose proposal for evaluating whether macroscopic systems can be in superposition states
Warfare
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Operation Felix
Operation Felix (german: Unternehmen Felix) was the codename for a proposed Nazi German invasion of Spain and seizure of Gibraltar during the Second World War. Subject to the co-operation of the Spanish dictator, Francisco Franco, the operation ...
, a German World War II project to conquer Gibraltar
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VB-6 Felix
The VB-6 Felix was a precision-guided munition developed by the United States during World War II. It used an infrared seeker to attack targets like blast furnaces or the metal roofs of large factories. The war ended before it could be used operat ...
, an infrared-guided bomb
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Dieter Gerhardt
Dieter Felix Gerhardt (born 1 November 1935) is a former commodore in the South African Navy and commander of the strategic Simon's Town naval dockyard. He was arrested by the FBI in New York City in 1983 following information obtained from a ...
(born 1935), South African navy commander convicted of treason, code named Felix
Other uses
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''Felix'' (newspaper), the weekly students' newspaper of Imperial College, London
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Felix (ship, 1993)
Felix may refer to:
* Felix (name), people and fictional characters with the name
Places
* Arabia Felix is the ancient Latin name of Yemen
* Felix, Spain, a municipality of the province Almería, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, S ...
, a passenger ship operating on Lake Zurich in Switzerland
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Hurricane Felix (disambiguation) The name Felix was used for five tropical cyclones, five in the Atlantic Ocean one in the Australian region, as well as for one extratropical European windstorm.
In the Atlantic:
* Hurricane Felix (1989) – Category 1 hurricane that did not ...
, various storms
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Venus Felix (sculpture)
The Venus Felix is a sculpture of Venus and her son Cupid which dates back to the 2nd-century AD. It was dedicated by Sallustia and Helpidus to Venus Felix. Its head resembles Faustina the Younger. It is now held at the Pius-Clementine museum o ...
, a sculpture of Venus and her son Cupid
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Felix (Hewlett-Packard)
The HP 200LX Palmtop PC (F1060A, F1061A, F1216A), also known as project ''Felix'', is a personal digital assistant introduced by Hewlett-Packard in August 1994. It was often called a Palmtop PC, and it was notable that it was, with some mi ...
, a codename for the HP 200LX palmtop PC
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''Felix'' (1921 film), a Norwegian silent drama film
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''Felix'' (1996 film), a Slovene film
* Felix Media, film company resident at
Carriageworks
Carriageworks is a multi-arts urban cultural precinct located at the former Eveleigh Railway Workshops in Redfern, Sydney, Australia. Carriageworks showcases contemporary art and performing arts, as well as being used for filming, festivals, fa ...
arts centre in Sydney, Australia
See also
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Felix the Cat (disambiguation) Felix the Cat is a cartoon character created in the silent era by Pat Sullivan and Otto Messmer.
Felix the Cat may also refer to:
* ''Felix the Cat'' (TV series), the 1950s TV series created by Joe Oriolo featuring Felix
** '' Felix the Cat: The ...
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St. Felix's flood
The St. Felix's flood (in Dutch Sint-Felixvloed) happened on Saturday, 5 November 1530, the name day of St. Felix. This day was later known as Evil Saturday ''(kwade zaterdag)''. Large parts of Flanders and Zeeland were washed away, including the ...
, a flood disaster that struck the Netherlands in 1530
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Saint-Félix (disambiguation) Saint-Félix may refer to:
People
* Saint: see Saint Felix
* Armand de Saint-Félix, French Navy officer of the 18th century
Places Canada
* Saint-Félix-de-Dalquier, Abitibi, Québec
* Saint-Félix-de-Kingsey, a municipality in Centre-du- ...
, the name or part of the name of several communes in France
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San Félix (disambiguation) San Félix may refer to:
* Isla San Félix, one of the Desventuradas Islands, off the coast of Chile
* San Félix District
San Félix District is a district (''distrito'') of Chiriquí Province in Panama
Panama ( , ; es, link=no, Pana ...
, the name of two places in South America
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Church of St. Felix (disambiguation) Church of St. Felix may refer to:
* Church of St. Felix, Nantes, France
* Church of St. Felix, Girona
The Collegiate Church of St. Felix ( ca, Col·legiata de Sant Feliu) is a basilica dedicated to St. Felix in the Catalan city of Girona, dating t ...
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