Castor
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Castor may reger to one of the following.
- In Greek mythology, Castor was one of the twin sons of Leda and the brothers of Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra: see Castor and Polydeuces.
- Castor (α Geminorum) is also a star, named after the character from Greek mythology.
- Castor is sometimes used as a nickname for Drusus, the son of Roman Emperor Tiberius.
- Castor is the genus name of the beaver.
- Castor, a family name
- A castor is a wheel mounted with an offset steering pivot such that the wheel will automatically align itself to the direction in which it is pushed. It is used for example on shopping carts and furniture. See also castor angle.
- The castor bean (a poisonous spurge seed) and its castor oil.
- The Castor Cracking Group is a demo group from Sweden active on ZX Spectrum.
- Castor is a data binding framework for Java. See castor.org (http://www.castor.org/).
- CASTOR is an acronym for Cask for the Storage and Transportation of Radioactive Material
- Castor Oyl is a cartoon character, brother of Olive Oyl.
- Castor is the name of an inept womanizing rogue in the webcomic Dungeon Crawl Inc.
- Places:
- Castor, Alberta - a town in East Central Alberta[1] (http://www.albertafirst.com/profiles/statspack/20399.html), Canada
- Castor - a village near Peterborough in Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
- Caistor St Edmund, in Norfolk, United Kingdom - Castor being an old name for it
- Castor, Louisiana, United States