Pleiades (disambiguation)

Pleiades (disambiguation)

Pleiades can refer to:
*Pleiades (star cluster) - open cluster of stars in the constellation Taurus
*Pleiades (mythology) - seven sisters of Greek mythology
*Pleiades (company) - a software and educational services company
*Pleiads - a video game for the Emerson Arcadia 2001 console
*Alexandrian Pleiad - group of classical Greek poets
*Berlin Pleiades - group of German chess players
*La Pléiade - group of 16th-century French poets
*Pleiadeans - group of extraterrestrials
*Pleiades (volcano group) - group of volcanoes in Antarctica
*Bibliothèque de la Pléiade - standard reference editions of major works of primarily French literature, published by the French publishing house Gallimard; such an edition is often called the "Pléiade edition"
*Pleiades (magazine) - "Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing" - magazine that publishes fiction, poetry, essays, and book reviews
*Pleiades Project - project of the Ancient World Mapping Center, University of North Carolina
*Pleiades Promoter Project - a Genome Canada project directed at creating new tools for gene therapy in the brain
*The Pleiades (Musical Group) - Jamaican musical group in the 1970s
*Pleiades (musical composition) - a percussion ensemble work by Iannis Xenakis
*Con*Stellation I: The Pleiades - The first in an annual series of science fiction conventions in Huntsville AL, USA


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