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Titan (disambiguation)
Titan, a word that indicates immense size, can mean many things:
Mythology
- In Greek mythology the Titans were the giant divine beings who preceded the Olympian gods.
- In Roman mythology, the Greek god Ouranos (Uranus) has been referred to as Titan
Science
- Titan is the planet Saturn's largest moon.
- The Titan rocket family.
- The Titan was the prototype Atlas 2 computer developed in the early 1960s in a collaboration between Ferranti and University of Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory.
Sports
- The Tennessee Titans of the National Football League (formerly the Houston Oilers, they left Texas for Memphis and eventually settled in Nashville, where they were rechristened.)
- The New York Jets of the NFL were originally known as the New York Titans of the American Football League.
- Denzel Washington played a high school football coach in the film Remember The Titans.
Fantasy and science fiction
- Titan is a fantasy war board game manufactured by Avalon Hill.
- Titan A.E. is an animated sci-fi space adventure movie.
- Titan is the title of a science fiction novel written by Stephen Baxter.
- Titan is the title of the first book in the Gaian Trilogy , written by SF author John Varley.
- Titan is the name of the Fighting Fantasy Game Books world that was created by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone.
- Titans in the tabletop strategy game Warhammer 40,000 are massive mechs armed with powerful weapons.
- Titans (or Asuras) can refer to beings in Asura realm.
- The Titans were an elite counter-insurgency group in the anime Zeta Gundam.
- The Titans are a race of beings that created the Warcraft universe.
- The Teen Titans are a group of DC superheroes.
Companies and products
- Titan Corporation, a private military contractor
- Titan is the name of an airline.
- Titan is the name of a German company which produced heavy duty tractors based on standard tractors by MAN and Mercedes-Benz.
- Titan is the name of Nissan's new full size pick up truck.
- Titan is the name of Leyland's double-deck buses produced in the 1970s and 1980s.
- Titan is the brand name of a large watchmaker
See also
Last updated: 05-23-2005 18:16:12
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