Eugene

Eugene may refer to:

People

  • Eugene (given name), information about the name including a list of people with the given name
  • Eugene (actress), South Korean actress and former member of singing group S.E.S.
  • Pope Eugene I, Italian pope from 655 to 657
  • Pope Eugene II, Italian pope from 824 to 827
  • Pope Eugene III, Italian pope from 1145 to 1153
  • Pope Eugene IV, Italian pope from 1431 to 1447
  • Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663–1736), Austrian general, statesman of the Holy Roman Empire and the Austrian monarchy
  • Places

  • Eugene, Oregon, a city in Lane County, Oregon
  • Eugene, Indiana, an unincorporated town in Vermillion County, Indiana
  • Eugene, Missouri, an unincorporated town in Cole County, Missouri
  • Mount Eugene, in Nunavut; the highest mountain of the United States Range on Ellesmere Island
  • Business

  • Eugene Green Energy Standard, an international standard to which electricity labelling schemes can be accredited to confirm that they provide genuine environmental benefits
  • Eugene Group, a Korean chaebol
  • Eugen Systems, a gaming company located in France, makers of Act of War: Direct Action
  • Éogan of Ardstraw

    Saint Éogan, was the founder of the monastery of Ardstraw.

    Life

    The name Eoghan means "born under the (protection of the sacred) yew tree". The yew was believed to be the oldest tree. Its wood was hard and hard to work, used for war and peace, for domestic vessels and door posts, for spears and shields. It had to be treated with care because its berries are toxic. The name Eoghan then already had a religious significance in pagan Ireland.

    Eogan was born in Leinster. According to his Vita, Eoghan was born the son of Cainneach and Muindeacha. His mother is said to have been of the Mugdorna of south-east Ulster. These people seem to have had some contact with the Laighin (who gave their name to Leinster), to whom his father Cainneach belonged. Since this is the area where Christianity first reached Ireland it may well be that Eoghan's father's family had been Christian for some time. As a boy he studied at Clones, and it was from there that he was carried off to Britain by pirates, and subsequently he was taken captive to Brittany, together with St. Tighernach, who is best known as the founder of the abbey of Clones, Co. Monaghan. On obtaining his freedom, he went to study at St. Ninian's Candida Casa. Others said to have studied with Ninian include Finnian of Moville. Returning to Ireland, he made a foundation at Kilnamanagh, in the Wicklow hills.

    Eugene–Springfield station

    Eugene–Springfield is a historic train station in Eugene, Oregon, United States. It is served by Amtrak's Coast Starlight passenger train and is the southern terminus of the Amtrak Cascades. The station is also served by the Cascades POINT bus service.

    History

    The station was built in 1908 by the Southern Pacific Railroad and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Southern Pacific Passenger Depot in 2007.

    The current station is the third passenger depot built at this location. Built of masonry, it is one of five masonry depots that still exist along the original Southern Pacific West Coast line. The other depots are in Albany, Medford, Roseburg and Salem.

    Southern Pacific sold the building to the Jenova Land Company in 1993, and ten years later the city of Eugene bought the depot as part of a plan to develop a regional transportation center. In 2004, the city oversaw a $4.5 million restoration project. Workers restored the exterior brickwork and trim and gutted and renovated the interior. New tile floors, oak and fir trim, covered ceilings, wooden benches and expanded bathrooms were installed.

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