Serendip
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Serendip may refer to:
- Serendip - an Old Persian name for Sri LankaSri LankaSri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...
- SERENDIPSERENDIPSERENDIP is a Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence program originated at the University of California, Berkeley....
- a SETI program at UC Berkeley - Serendip SanctuarySerendip SanctuarySerendip Sanctuary is a 227 ha protected area in Victoria, Australia, near the You Yangs and the town of Lara, some 22 km north of Geelong and 60 km south-west of Melbourne....
- a protected area for wildlife in Victoria, Australia - SerendipitySerendipitySerendipity means a "happy accident" or "pleasant surprise"; specifically, the accident of finding something good or useful without looking for it. The word has been voted as one of the ten English words hardest to translate in June 2004 by a British translation company. However, due to its...
- an unintentional discovery made by accident and sagacity - The Three Princes of SerendipThe Three Princes of SerendipThe Three Princes of Serendip is the English version of the Peregrinaggio di tre giovani figliuoli del re di Serendippo published by Michele Tramezzino in Venice in 1557. Tramezzino claimed to have heard the story from one Christophero Armeno who had translated the Persian fairy tale into Italian...
- an old Persian fairy tale - Serendip (Bryn Mawr College) - an "Intellectual Playground" being developed by Bryn Mawr College in Wales