Ithaca (disambiguation)
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Ithaca
is an island in Greece.
Ithaca or Ithaka may also refer to:
Ithaca
Ithaca or Ithaka is an island located in the Ionian Sea, in Greece, with an area of and a little more than three thousand inhabitants. It is also a separate regional unit of the Ionian Islands region, and the only municipality of the regional unit. It lies off the northeast coast of Kefalonia and...
is an island in Greece.
Ithaca or Ithaka may also refer to:
- Homer's IthacaHomer's IthacaThe location of Homer's Ithaca, i.e. Ithaca as featured in Homer's Odyssey, is a matter for debate.The central characters of the epic such as Odysseus, Achilles, Agamemnon and Hector are generally believed to be fictional characters. Yet there are many claims that some Homeric hero long ago had...
, Ithaca as featured in Homer's Odyssey - 1151 Ithaka1151 Ithaka1151 Ithaka is a main belt asteroid orbiting the Sun. It makes a revolution around the Sun once every 4 years. It was discovered by Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth at Heidelberg, Germany on September 8, 1929. It was named after the Greek island of Ithaca in the Ionian Sea. Its provisional designation was...
, an asteroid - Ithaca ChasmaIthaca ChasmaIthaca Chasma is a valley on Saturn's moon Tethys, named after the island of Ithaca, in Greece. It is on average 100 km wide, 3 to 5 km deep and 2,000 km long, running approximately three-quarters of the way around Tethys' circumference, making it one of the longer valleys in the...
, a valley on Saturn's moon Tethys - Ithaca CollegeIthaca CollegeIthaca College is a private college located on the South Hill of Ithaca, New York. The school was founded by William Egbert in 1892 as a conservatory of music. The college has a strong liberal arts core, but also offers several pre-professional programs and some graduate programs. The college is...
, a liberal arts college - Ithaca Gun CompanyIthaca Gun CompanyThe Ithaca Gun Company is a manufacturer of shotguns and rifles originally established in Ithaca, New York in 1880.-Production:Ithaca became famous for building firearms based on expired patents owned by Remington Arms...
, a US shotgun and rifle manufacturer - Ithaca 37Ithaca 37The Ithaca 37 is a pump-action shotgun made in large numbers for the civilian, military, and police markets. It utilizes a novel combination ejection/loading port on the bottom of the gun which leaves the sides closed to the elements. In addition, the outline of the gun is clean...
, a shotgun - Ithaka, the owner of the JSTORJSTORJSTOR is an online system for archiving academic journals, founded in 1995. It provides its member institutions full-text searches of digitized back issues of several hundred well-known journals, dating back to 1665 in the case of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society...
journal database
United States
- Ithaca, New YorkIthaca, New YorkThe city of Ithaca, is a city in upstate New York and the county seat of Tompkins County, as well as the largest community in the Ithaca-Tompkins County metropolitan area...
, a city in New York State- Ithaca Tompkins Regional AirportIthaca Tompkins Regional Airport-Bus:TCAT Route 32 travels to the Commons and Cornell University Monday through Friday, As of 2010, Route 72 serves the airport on weekends.-Taxi:Ithaca Dispatch operates a taxi stand at the airport, although it may be necessary to call in advance, especially during peak hours...
- Ithaca City School DistrictIthaca City School DistrictThe Ithaca City School District is a public school district centered in Ithaca, Caroline, Danby, Dryden and Enfield. Approximately 500 teachers work in the district, along with 100 other professional staff members and 200 paraprofessionals....
, a public school district - Ithaca CommonsIthaca CommonsThe Ithaca Commons is a two-block pedestrian mall in downtown Ithaca, New York, built in 1974. Its boundaries are Green Street to the south, Cayuga Street to the west, Seneca Street to the north, and Aurora Street to the east. It sits at the intersection of Tioga and State Streets...
, a pedestrian mall - Ithaca Health AllianceIthaca Health AllianceThe Ithaca Health Alliance is a community-based health care cooperative based in Ithaca, New York. It incorporates financial and service assistance models to alleviate health care costs for its members and is a model for cooperative health care reform in the United States...
, a health insurance cooperative - Ithaca High School (Ithaca, New York)Ithaca High School (Ithaca, New York)Ithaca High School is a public high school in Ithaca, New York. It is part of the Ithaca City School District, and has an enrollment of approximately 1,675. Jarett Powers has been principal since 2011.-About:...
, a public secondary school - Ithaca HoursIthaca HoursThe Ithaca HOUR is a local currency used in Ithaca, New York and is the oldest and largest local currency system in the United States that is still operating. It has inspired other similar systems in Madison, Wisconsin; Corvallis, Oregon; and a proposed system in the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania...
, a local currency system
- Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport
- Ithaca, Georgia
- Ithaca, MichiganIthaca, MichiganIthaca is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 3,098. It is the county seat of Gratiot County.-Geography:...
, a city in Michigan- Ithaca High School (Michigan)Ithaca High School (Michigan)Ithaca Jr./Sr. High School is a public high school located in Ithaca, Michigan in central Gratiot County. It is part of the Ithaca Public Schools system and is a member of the Tri-Valley West Athletic Conference.-Athletics:...
- Ithaca High School (Michigan)
- Ithaca, NebraskaIthaca, NebraskaIthaca is a village in Saunders County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 168 at the 2000 census. Even though a small village, Ithaca has attracted several notable residents to the surrounding area...
- Ithaca, OhioIthaca, OhioIthaca is a village in Darke County, Ohio, United States. The population was 102 at the 2000 census.-History:John Colville platted Ithaca in 1832 and gave it the name of "Twinsborough." Its location on an established highway and along the Ohio Electric Railway caused the community to grow...
- Ithaca, WisconsinIthaca, WisconsinIthaca is a town in Richland County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 648 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated communiities of Aubrey, Bear Valley, Keyesville, and Neptune are located in the town.-Geography:...
Music
- Ithaka (musician)Ithaka (musician)Ithaka is the professional name of hip hop artist, sculptor, artistic photographer, writer and Surfer, Darin Pappas .Ithaka was born and raised in Southern California, but later established himself in Japan, Greece, Portugal and Brazil .In Lisbon he recorded his first two hip hop albums, Flowers...
- Ithaca (album), a 2010 album by Paula Cole
Publications
- The Ithaca JournalThe Ithaca JournalThe Ithaca Journal is a daily morning broadsheet newspaper published in Ithaca, New York. It is locally edited and printed in Johnson City, New York and publishes Monday through Saturday. It has been owned by Gannett since 1912.-Daily newspaper:...
, a daily newspaper - Ithaca Community NewsIthaca Community NewsThe Ithaca Community News is a semi-monthly email newsletter and web site founded by former local resident and activist Paul Glover. He had over 7,900 subscribers, not including website readers, which represented roughly a quarter of the population of Ithaca, NY. Many subscribers were from other...
, an e-mail newsletter
Fiction
- "Ithaca", a poem by Greek poet Kavafis
- Ithaca (Dune), a no-ship in the Dune fictional universe
- Ithaca, the town in California where Saroyan's The Human Comedy takes place
- Ithaca, the penultimate episode of James Joyce's novel UlyssesUlysses (novel)Ulysses is a novel by the Irish author James Joyce. It was first serialised in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, and then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, in Paris. One of the most important works of Modernist literature,...