Cooper
Encyclopedia
Landforms and places
- Cooper (crater)Cooper (crater)Cooper is a lunar crater that is located in the northern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon. It lies to the east of the large walled plain D'Alembert, and west-southwest of the crater Chappell....
, a lunar crater - Cooper CreekCooper CreekCooper Creek is one of the most famous and yet least visited rivers in Australia. It is sometimes known as the Barcoo River from one of its tributaries and is one of three major Queensland river systems that flow into the Lake Eyre Basin...
, Australia - Cooper IslandCooper IslandCooper Island is a small island, long, which lies at the north side of the entrance to Drygalski Fjord, off the southeast end of South Georgia...
, South Georgia - Cooper IslandsCooper IslandsThe Cooper Islands are a group of small islands located 1.6 km off the northeast coast of Attu Island. They extend 0.48 km into the Bering Sea. The islands were named in July 1855 for the schooner USS Fenimore Cooper by Lt. William Gibson, USN....
, Alaska, USA - Cooper Lake (disambiguation)
- Cooper River (New Jersey)Cooper River (New Jersey)The Cooper River is a tributary of the Delaware River in southwestern New Jersey in the United States.The confluence of the Cooper River with the Delaware River is in Camden...
, USA - Cooper MountainCooper MountainCooper Mountain runs southwest northeast through Hampshire County in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle, rising to its greatest elevation of above sea-level at Bens Knob. The mountain's other knob, Butchers Knob, has an elevation of . Cooper Mountain is flanked to its west by North River Mountain...
, West Virginia, USA - Cooper Mountain (Oregon)Cooper Mountain (Oregon)Cooper Mountain is a mountain in Washington County, Oregon, United States. Its summit has an elevation of . The mountain and surrounding area are named for Ohio immigrant Perry Cooper who settled on the mountain.- Namesakes :* Cooper Mountain Nature Park...
, USA - Cooper River (South Carolina)Cooper River (South Carolina)The Cooper River is a mainly tidal river in the U.S. state of South Carolina. These cities are located along the river, Mt. Pleasant, Charleston, North Charleston, Goose Creek and Hanahan. Short and wide, it is joined first by the blackwater East Branch, then farther downstream, the tidal Wando River...
, USA - Cooper County, MissouriCooper County, MissouriCooper County is a county located in the U.S. state of Missouri. In 2010, the population was 17,601. Its county seat is Boonville. The county was organized in 1818 and is named for Sarshall Cooper, a frontier settler who was killed by Indians near Arrow Rock in 1814.-Geography:According to the 2000...
Also, Cooperstown, New York
Cooperstown, New York
Cooperstown is a village in Otsego County, New York, USA. It is located in the Town of Otsego. The population was estimated to be 1,852 at the 2010 census.The Village of Cooperstown is the county seat of Otsego County, New York...
, named for writer James Fennimore Cooper and home of the Baseball Hall of Fame
Companies
- Cooper Canada Ltd.Cooper Canada Ltd.Cooper Canada Ltd. was a sporting goods and fine leather goods manufacturer based in Toronto, Canada. In its heyday, the 1960s through to the 1980s, the company was Canada's leading producer of leather baseball gloves and protective ice hockey equipment...
, a defunct sporting goods manufacturer - Cooper Car CompanyCooper Car CompanyThe Cooper Car Company was founded in 1946 by Charles Cooper and his son John Cooper. Together with John's boyhood friend, Eric Brandon, they began by building racing cars in Charles' small garage in Surbiton, Surrey, England in 1946...
, British car company, currently associated with the BMW MINI - Cooper Firearms of MontanaCooper Firearms of MontanaCooper Firearms of Montana was founded in 1990 by Dan Cooper and two other former Kimber of Oregon employees.-History:Cooper was created to build affordable custom-quality accurate rifles. As they put it "Rifles should shoot as well as they look and vice versa". All Cooper rifles carry an accuracy...
, a United States manufacturer of high-powered precision firearms - Cooper Tires, American tire company
- Coopers BreweryCoopers BreweryCoopers Brewery is an Australian beer company. Its shares are primarily owned by the extended Cooper family, and the company's constitution and classes of shares makes it difficult to sell shares outside the family. Coopers is known for making a variety of high quality beers, the most famous of...
, Australian beer company owned by the Cooper family - Coopers Inc., a company which designed a new style of underwear called the briefs, now part of Jockey
- Cooper IndustriesCooper IndustriesCooper Industries is a former US-based company that in 2009 switched its incorporation office from Bermuda to Ireland, maintaining its chief operational offices in Houston, Texas. It produces transformers, tools and electrical equipment, employing 29,000 staff around the world. Revenue in 2007 was...
, Houston-based electrical products and tools manufacturer - Cooper Brothers / Coopers & Lybrand / Coopers & Lybrand Deloitte, now PriceWaterhouseCoopersPricewaterhouseCoopersPricewaterhouseCoopers is a global professional services firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the world's largest professional services firm measured by revenues and one of the "Big Four" accountancy firms....
- Frank Cooper (company)Frank Cooper (company)Frank Cooper's is a UK brand of marmalades and jams owned by Premier Foods. Frank Cooper's is known primarily for its "Oxford" Marmalade and holds a Royal Warrant.-Oxford High Street:...
, British Oxford-based marmalade manufacturer
Music
- "Cooper", a song by Roxette from their 1999 album Have a Nice DayHave a Nice Day (Roxette album)-Singles:*"Wish I Could Fly"*#"Wish I Could Fly"*#"Happy Together"*#"Wish I Could Fly" *"Anyone"*#"Anyone"*#"Anyone" *#"Cooper"...
- "Cooper (producers)", an alias of Dutch producers Klubbheads
- "The Cooper BrothersThe Cooper BrothersThe Cooper Brothers are a 70s Canadian southern rock band founded in Ottawa, Ontario, by brothers Brian Cooper and Dick Cooper and their long-time friend Terry King. Starting in 1974, the band released several singles under the production guidance of Les Emmerson...
", a Rock band
Other
- Cooper (surname)Cooper (surname)Cooper is a surname originating in England, and means maker of barrels; see Cooper . Cooper is the 32nd most common surname in the United Kingdom.Many notable persons share this surname.- A :...
- Cooper (given name)Cooper (given name)-List of people with the given name Cooper:* Cooper Carlisle, American professional football player* Cooper Cronk, Australian rugby league player* Cooper Edens, author and illustrator of children's books* Cooper Huckabee, film and television actor...
- Cooper BlackCooper BlackCooper Black is a heavily weighted, old style serif typeface designed by Oswald Bruce Cooper in 1921 and released by the Barnhart Brothers & Spindler type foundry in 1922. The typeface is drawn as an extra bold weight of Cooper Old Style. Though not based on a single historic model, Cooper Black...
, a typeface - Cooper FoundationCooper FoundationThe Cooper Foundation of Lincoln, Nebraska, is a charitable and educational organization established in 1934 by Joseph H. Cooper, a long-time theater owner and former partner of Paramount Pictures...
, a charitable and educational organization established in 1934 by Joseph H. Cooper in Lincoln, Nebraska - Cooper Nuclear StationCooper Nuclear StationCooper Nuclear Station is a boiling water reactor type nuclear power plant located on a 1,251-acre site near Brownville, Nebraska between Missouri River mile markers 532.9 and 532.5...
, power plant in Brownville, Nebraska - Cooper Lane Elementary School a elementary school in Landover Hills, MarylandLandover Hills, MarylandLandover Hills is a town in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. The population was 1,534 at the 2000 census.It has a neighborhood named Defense Heights.-Bordering areas:* Woodlawn * Greater Landover...
- Cooper testCooper testThe Cooper test is a test of physical fitness. It was designed by Kenneth H. Cooper in 1968 for US military use. In the original form, the point of the test is to run as far as possible within 12 minutes...
, a fitness test - Cooper UnionCooper UnionThe Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, commonly referred to simply as Cooper Union, is a privately funded college in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, United States, located at Cooper Square and Astor Place...
, a selective college in New York City - Cooper University HospitalCooper University HospitalCooper University Hospital is a provider of health services, medical education, and clinical research in southern New Jersey and the Delaware Valley, in the United States...
, a healthcare provider in New Jersey - Cooper, a half-Alaskan Malamute dog who accompanied Peter JenkinsPeter Jenkins (travel author)Peter Jenkins describes his experiences over nearly six years that he spent walking from New York to Oregon.Peter was born on July 8 of 1951He is a graduate of Alfred University, with a BFA in Sculpture/Ceramics , as well as an honorary doctorate ....
in A Walk Across America - Sly CooperSly CooperSly Cooper is a series of platform stealth video games for the Sony PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3. The series was developed by Sucker Punch Productions for the first three games, and then it was passed on to Sanzaru Games while Sucker Punch continued work on the Infamous series...
, a video game series - Cooper (Video Game Character), a fictional game character from Dino Crisis made by CAPCOM in 1999
- Cooper Spur ski area, Oregon
- Cooper pairCooper pairIn condensed matter physics, a Cooper pair or BCS pair is two electrons that are bound together at low temperatures in a certain manner first described in 1956 by American physicist Leon Cooper...
, in condensed matter, electrons bound together at low temperatures in a manner first described in 1956 by Leon Cooper - Cooper, a young technopath and one-time character from the American animated series Ben 10
- Coop Burtonburger, a fictional character from Kid vs. KatKid vs. KatKid vs. Kat is a Canadian animated television series developed and produced at Studio B Productions. The show is created and co-directed by Rob Boutilier. The feature revolves around a 10-year-old boy's constant battle with his sister's Sphinx cat which, in reality, is a cybernetic alien. The...
- MiniMiniThe Mini is a small car that was made by the British Motor Corporation and its successors from 1959 until 2000. The original is considered a British icon of the 1960s, and its space-saving front-wheel-drive layout influenced a generation of car-makers...
Cooper, a small car that was made by the British Motor CorporationBritish Motor CorporationThe British Motor Corporation, or commonly known as BMC was a vehicle manufacturer from United Kingdom, formed by the merger of the Austin Motor Company and the Nuffield Organisation in 1952...