Cannon (disambiguation)
Appearance
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A cannon is a large-caliber gun classified as a type of artillery.
Cannon may also refer to:
Places
[edit]United Kingdom
[edit]- Cannons (house), an 18th-century palace built for the Duke of Chandos in Stanmore
- Cannon Street, London
United States
[edit]- Cannon, Delaware
- Cannon, Kentucky
- Cannon City, Minnesota
- Cannon County, Tennessee
- Cannon Mountain (New Hampshire)
- Cannon River (Minnesota)
- Cannon Township, Michigan
- Cannon Township, Kittson County, Minnesota
Elsewhere
[edit]- Cape Cannon, Greenland
- Cannon (crater), on the Moon
Businesses
[edit]- Cannon (ITT Corporation), a manufacturer of cables, switches and connectors
- Cannon (automobile), produced from 1902 to 1906
- Cannon Mills, a textile manufacturer
- Cannon Films, a former motion picture studio
- CannonDesign, an architectural firm founded in 1945
Media
[edit]- Cannon (TV series), 1971–1976
- Cannon, the 1971 pilot TV movie for the series
- Heroes, Inc. Presents Cannon, a comic book
Music
[edit]- Il Cannone Guarnerius (The Cannon), a violin made by Giuseppe Antonio Guarneri in 1743
- Cannon depth drums, tom-tom and bass drums deeper than power depth
- Cannon (band), a post rock band from Glasgow, Scotland, active between 1999 and 2003
- Cannons (band), a Los Angeles indie pop band
- Cannons (album), a 2007 album by Phil Wickham
- "Cannon", a 1995 single by American pop/rock band Self from Subliminal Plastic Motives
- "Cannon", a song by the White Stripes from their self-titled album
- "Cannons", a song by Youth Lagoon from his debut album The Year of Hibernation
Other uses
[edit]- Cannon (surname)
- Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico, US
- Cannon bone, a bone in the forelimb of a horse
- Cannon School, a private school in North Carolina, US
- Great Cannon, a cyberweapon used by the Chinese government
- Old Jeremiah, British naval gun, affectionately referred to as The Cannon
- USS Cannon (DE-99), a 1943 World War II United States destroyer
- Hail cannon, a shock wave generator claimed to disrupt the formation of hailstones in the atmosphere
- Ohio Cannon, a professional American football team in 1999
- Cannon, a British/Canadian term for a snooker or billiards shot