Cairo (disambiguation)
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Cairo is the capital city of Egypt. It may also refer to:
[edit] Towns or cities in the United States
- Cairo, Georgia
- Cairo, Illinois
- Cairo Township, Minnesota
- Cairo, Missouri
- Cairo, Nebraska
- Cairo (town), New York
- Cairo, Ohio
- Cairo, West Virginia
[edit] Computing
- Cairo (operating system), the internal Microsoft code name for a 1990s technology project
- Cairo (typeface), a symbol typeface
- cairo (graphics), the free software vector graphics library
[edit] Film
- Cairo (1942 film), an American film starring Jeanette MacDonald
- Cairo (1963 film), an American film starring George Sanders
[edit] Music
- Cairo (band), a progressive rock band
- Cairo, Illinois (song), a song from the 1974 musical film Huckleberry Finn
- L'oca del Cairo, an opera buffa
[edit] People
- Francesco Cairo, a 17th century Italian painter
- Miguel Cairo, a Major League Baseball player
- Cairo Foster, an Asian-American skateboarder
[edit] Literature
- Cairo Jim, a popular series of children's books by Australian author Geoffrey McSkimming
- Cairo Trilogy, a trilogy of novels written by Naguib Mahfouz
- Cairo poets, a literary group based in Cairo, Egypt during World War II
- Cairo, a graphic novel by G. Willow Wilson and M.K. Perker
[edit] Ships
- HMS Cairo (D87), a ship in the Royal Navy
- USS Cairo (1861), an ironclad river gunboat in the United States Navy during the 19th century
[edit] Other uses
- Cairo 52, a term referring to an incident where fifty-two men were arrested on May 11, 2001
- Cairo Apartment Building in Washington, D.C.
- Cairo Gang, a group of 18 MI5 agents sent to Dublin during the Anglo-Irish War
- Cairo Montenotte, a comune in the Italian region Liguria
- Cairo pentagonal tiling, a geometrical pattern
- Cairo Road, an important thoroughfare in Lusaka, Zambia
- Pieve del Cairo, a comune in the Italian region Lombardy
- Cairo Station, a fictional orbital Super MAC defence platform in the Halo 2 video game
[edit] See also
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