Mariposa

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

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Mariposa (novel)

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 station (Los Angeles Metro)

Mariposa is an elevated light rail station on the Los Angeles County Metro Rail Green Line. It is located on Nash Street and Mariposa Boulevard in El Segundo, California. The original name for this station was Mariposa/Nash and it may still be used in some places.

The Toyota Sports Center, the practice facility for the Los Angeles Kings, Los Angeles Lakers, and the Los Angeles Sparks, is located nearby as are the Campus El Segundo Athletic Fields, two recreational artificial grass fields.

Once completed, the under-construction Crenshaw/LAX Line will also serve the station.