What is "mariposa"

n. any of several plants of the genus Calochortus having tulip-shaped flowers with 3 sepals and 3 petals; southwestern United States and Mexico [syn: mariposa tulip, mariposa lily]

Mariposa is the Spanish word for '' Butterfly. It may also refer to:

• La Mariposa, a character from the Dead or Alive video game series
• Las Mariposas, nickname for the Mirabal sisters, Dominican political dissidents who opposed the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo
• Mariposa (novel), a 2009 novel by science fiction author Greg Bear
• Mariposa Battalion, a California State Militia unit formed in 1851 to fight the Miwok and Yokut people in the Mariposa War
• Mariposa botnet, a botnet involved in cyberscamming and denial of service attacks
• Mariposa Folk Festival, a folk music festival in Ontario, Canada
• Mariposa Grove, a sequoia grove located near Wawona, California, in the southernmost part of Yosemite National Park
• Mariposa lily, a bulbous plant species of the genus Calochortus; native to western North America
• Mariposa School of Skating, a Canadian figure-skating training center
• Mariposa War, a war between Native Americans and miners in California that lasted from May 1850 until June 1851
• Moth, a flying insect related to the butterfly
• Mariposa (wrestler), American professional wrestler
• Barbie Mariposa, a 2008 movie (alternate title: Barbie: Mariposa and her Butterfly Fairy Friends)

Mariposa is a fictional Canadian town created by Stephen Leacock as the setting for a series of short stories. They were originally commissioned by The Montreal Star newspaper and later collected and published in one volume as Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town. Since then, many attempts have been made to expand the canon, present it in a different form or make reference to it.

Although the author publicly denied it, the town is closely modelled on the town of Orillia, Ontario and its inhabitants. He named it after one or more nearby communities, which had borne versions of that name in real life, which have since disincorporated: Mariposa, Ontario, and Mariposa Beach. Leacock was a professor of political economy at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, but he had a summer home at Old Brewery Bay. The names of the characters in the stories were altered to avoid potential libel lawsuits when the stories were published in book form in 1912.

The remainder of this article will provide information on Mariposa in the form of a regular geographic entry as if it really existed, with references to the facts associated with the non-fictional models.

Mariposa (2009) is a science fiction novel written by Greg Bear as both a sequel to Quantico and a prequel to Queen of Angels, featuring characters from both earlier works. Set in 2021 America, whose government is more than fifty trillion dollars in debt, the novel follows an FBI investigation of the Talos Corporation (a thinly disguised Blackwater) which plans to disable the power grid across the entire Eastern seaboard in a simultaneous, coordinated attack of domestic terrorism, which will trigger the provisions of a law Congress passed authorizing Federal lands and resources as collateral to continue borrowing funds from overseas. Unexpected help comes from a secret weapon in the Federal arsenal, non-nuclear EMP, as well as a mute Mind Design proto-AI named Jones, early precursor to Jill, who has a back door into Talos.

Mariposa is the missing link that ties Quantico (2005) together with Queen of Angels (1990) "/" (also known as Slant; 1997), Heads (1990) and Moving Mars into a single unified future history. Green Idaho has seceded from the Union. Mary Choi, the protagonist of Queen of Angels and / appears as an orphan of age two. President Raphkind comes to power, beginning an administration that is still reviled by the time of Queen of Angels in 2047.

Mariposa is the second album by Italian singer Lodovica Comello. It was released in Italy on February 3, 2015. The first single, "Todo el resto no cuenta", was released ahead of the album's release on January 30, 2015. The second single, "Sin usar palabras", was released on April 24, 2015.