Sirocco
Sirocco ( ), scirocco, or, rarely, siroc (see below) is a Mediterranean wind that comes from the Sahara and can reach hurricane speeds in North Africa and Southern Europe, especially during the summer season.
Names
''Sirocco'' derives from ...
is a hot, fast Mediterranean wind.
Sirocco or similar spellings may also refer to:
Media and entertainment
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''Sirocco'' (album) by Australian Crawl
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''Sirocco'' (film), starring Humphrey Bogart
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''Sirocco'' (play), a play by Noël Coward
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Sirocco (Australian band)
Sirocco is an Australian music group that began in 1980 with three musicians: Bill O'Toole, Guy Madigan and Andrew de Teliga. In 1981 Michael Atherton joined and the group recorded their first album ''Paths of the Wind''.
They have been nominated ...
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''Scirocco'' (film), directed by Aldo Lado
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''Siroco'' (album) by Paco de Lucia
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Paptimus Scirocco, a character from the anime series ''Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam''
* Scirocco, a character in the
''Silverwing'' series of books
* "Scirocco," a song by Italian singer-songwriter Francesco Guccini on his album ''
Signora Bovary
''Signora Bovary'' is an album of Italian singer-songwriter Francesco Guccini. It was released in 1987 by EMI.
The album
"Signora Bovary" is a poetic variation of Gustave Flaubert's 1857 novel ''Madame Bovary''. "Culodritto" is dedicated to Gucci ...
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*The ''Scirocco'', a vessel of the Martian Congressional Republic Navy in ''
The Expanse
Expanse or The Expanse may refer to:
Media and entertainment
''The Expanse'' franchise
* ''The Expanse'' (novel series), a series of science fiction novels by James S. A. Corey
* ''The Expanse'' (TV series), a television adaptation of the ...
'' TV series.
Cars and aircraft
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Aviasud Sirocco
The Aviasud Sirocco is a single-seat ultralight available in kit or fully assembled form and originally produced by Aviasud Engineering in 1983. It is of pod-and-boom design with tricycle undercarriage and pusher configuration. The fuselage is of ...
, a French ultra-light aircraft
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AC Sirocco nG, an updated model
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Scirocco-Powell
Scirocco was a Formula One constructor from the United Kingdom. They participated in seven World Championship Grands Prix, entering a total of nine cars, as well as numerous non-Championship Grands Prix. Scirocco also provided chassis for priv ...
, a former racing car constructor
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Volkswagen Scirocco
The Volkswagen Scirocco is a three-door, front-engine, front-wheel-drive, sport compact hatchback manufactured and marketed by Volkswagen in two generations from 1974 to 1992 and a third generation from 2008 until 2017. Production ended without a ...
, a car
* ''Sirocco'', the name of a Lackawanna Railroad train car involved in the
Rockport train wreck
The Rockport train wreck occurred in Rockport in Mansfield Township, New Jersey, United States, about three miles outside of Hackettstown, on June 16, 1925. A violent storm washed debris onto a grade crossing, derailing a Lackawanna Railroad (D ...
Ships
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''Siroco'' (L 9012), a landing ship of the French Navy
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Spanish submarine ''Siroco'' (S-72), an Agosta 90B class submarine of the Spanish Navy
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French destroyer ''Siroco''
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HMAS ''Sirocco''
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USS ''Sirocco''
Other uses
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Mehmed Siroco
Şuluk Mehmed Pasha (1525 – 7 October 1571), better known in Europe as Mehmed Siroco or Mahomet Sirocco, and also spelled Sulik, Chulouk, Şolok, Seluk, or Suluc and known with the titles Pasha, Reis, or Bey, was the Ottoman Bey (regional gover ...
(1525–1571), nickname of an Ottoman admiral
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Sirocco (parrot)
Sirocco (hatched 23 March 1997) is a kākāpō, a large, flightless, nocturnal parrot, and one of the remaining kākāpō in the world. He achieved individual fame following an incident on the BBC television series ''Last Chance to See'' in whi ...
, a famous kakapo
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Sirocco (restaurant)
Lebua at State Tower is an Suite (hotel), all-suite luxury hotel occupying from the 21st to 25th floors of State Tower adjacent to the Chao Phraya River on Si Lom, Silom Road in the Bang Rak District of Bangkok, Thailand. The hotel is managed by "L ...
, a 63rd floor rooftop restaurant atop the State Tower in Bangkok, Thailand
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Shirocco
Shirocco (foaled 10 April 2001) is a German Thoroughbred racehorse. He was trained in his native Germany by Andreas Schütz up to the end of his three-year-old season before moving to French trainer André Fabre to race as a four and five ye ...
, a German thoroughbred racehorse
* Sirocco, codename for the
S1 Core
S1 Core (codename Sirocco) is an open source hardware microprocessor design developed by Simply RISC. Based on Sun Microsystems' UltraSPARC T1, the S1 Core is licensed under the GNU General Public License, which is the license Sun chose for the Ope ...
, an open source hardware microprocessor design
* Sirocco, a model of the
Nokia 8800
The Nokia 8800 (pronounced ''eighty-eight-hundred'') is a luxury mobile phone produced by Nokia, based on the Nokia Series 40 operating system. The 8800 features a stainless-steel housing with a scratch-resistant screen and has a weight of 134 gr ...
mobile phone and revived more recently for the
Nokia 8 Sirocco
The Nokia 8 Sirocco (TA-1005) is a high-end smartphone running the Android One variant of Android. It was introduced at MWC in February 2018, and named after the Nokia 8800 Sirocco. The successor of the Nokia 8 Sirocco is the Nokia 9 PureView. ...
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Sirocco Works F.C.
Sirocco Works Football Club is a Northern Irish intermediate football club playing in Division 1A of the Northern Amateur Football League. Established in 1924, the club is the longest existing club in all the intermediate and junior divisions i ...
, a football club in Northern Ireland
* SIROCCO, the abbreviated name for the academic conference
* Sirocco, a type of forward curved centrifugal fan developed by
Samuel Cleland Davidson
Sir Samuel Cleland Davidson, Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, KBE (18 November 1846 – 18 August 1921) was a British inventor and engineer. Through his career in the tea import business he invented and patented a number of ...
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