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Mars (disambiguation)
Mars
can refer to different things:
Mars
is the fourth
planet
from the
Sun
.
Mars
was the god of
war
in
Roman mythology
.
Mars, Incorporated
is a confectioner, and the
Mars Bar
is the name of a
candy bar
they produce.
"Mars, the Bringer of War" is a
movement
in
Gustav Holst
's
The Planets
suite.
Mars
was a short-lived
No Wave
band
.
Mars
is the title of a
manga
comic book
.
Mars is an actor from
Hong Kong
, member of the
Jackie Chan
stuntman team.
Technology
Seven ships of the
Royal Navy
have been named
HMS
Mars
.
The
Mars probe program
was a series of unmanned craft launched by the
Soviet Union
in the early
1970s
.
Mars was the code name for a family of
PDP-10
-compatible
computers
built by
Systems Concepts
.
In
cryptography
,
MARS
is a
block cipher
designed by
IBM
, and one of the finalists for the
Advanced Encryption Standard
.
MARS can stand for Military Affiliate Radio System , an auxiliary
communications system
for the
United States armed forces
Places
Mars
is a borough located in
Butler County
,
Pennsylvania
Mars Hill
is a town in
Aroostook County
,
Maine
Mars' Hill is an obsolete translation, used for instance in the
Authorised Version
of the
Acts of the Apostles
, for the
Areopagus
(Hill of Ares) in
Athens
.
Mars is a commune in the
Ardèche
département
, in
France
.
Mars is a commune in the
Gard
département
, in France.
Last updated: 05-28-2005 14:19:39
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