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Columbiad (disambiguation)

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A columbiad is a type of gun from the 19th century, a large-caliber muzzle-loading cannon capable of firing at low and high angles

Columbiad may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

  • The Columbiad, an epic poem about the founding of the United States of America
  • Columbiad, the fictional astronaut-launching space gun created by Jules Verne for From the Earth to the Moon
  • Columbiad (ballet), a ballet that debuted in 1939
  • "Columbiad" (short story), a 1996 science fiction story by Stephen Baxter, republished in 1997 in Year's Best SF 2 multi-author anthology collection, and in 1998 in Stephen Baxter's anthology collection Traces (book)

Other uses

  • Columbiad (spacecraft), the informal name of the Apollo 8 space capsule
  • Columbiad (journal), A Quarterly Review of the War Between the States

See also

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