Calico

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Contents 1 Textiles 2 Animals 3 Business 4 Education 5 People 6 Places 7 Other

Calico may refer to:

[edit] Textiles

• Calico (fabric), a plain-woven cotton textile from Mexico City

[edit] Animals

• Calico cat, Calico or Tortoiseshell is a common coloration for domestic cats
• Calico goldfish, goldfish that sports a type of metallic and transparent scales

[edit] Business

• Calico Light Weapons Systems, a small firearms manufacturing company currently based in Hillsboro, Oregon
• Calico Liberty, a roller-delayed blowback-operated semi-automatic rifle or pistol
  • Calico M100, a blowback operated semi-automatic rifle/carbine (M100)
  • Calico M100P, a semi-automatic pistol
  • Calico M960, 9mm semi-automatic gun

[edit] Education

• CALICO - The Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium, American consortium

[edit] People

• Calico Cooper (born 1981), American actress and the daughter of rock and roll musician Alice Cooper
• Calico Jack Rackham (died 1720), English pirate captain in the early 18th century
• Tyrone Calico (born 1980), American football wide receiver
• Calico aka Skaddy (born in the '80s), Jamaican entertainer/DJ with witty, conscious lyrics and a powerful voice. His music crosses several generes ranging from reggae, dancehall, hip hop, soca, jazz and techno.

[edit] Places

• Calico Mountains (California), just north of Interstate 15 in the Mojave Desert, California
  • Calico, California, a ghost town in the Mojave Desert region of Southern California
  • Calico and Odessa Railroad, a heritage railway in the ghost town of Calico, California
• Calico, Kern County, California
• Calico Mountains (Nevada)
• Calico Early Man Site, a possible archaeological site 15 miles NE of Barstow, California
• Calico Mills, one of Ahmedabad’s (India) earliest textile mills established in 1880
  • Calico Museum of Textiles, in the city of Ahmedabad, state of Gujarat in western India
• Calico Rock, Arkansas, a city in Izard County, United States
• Ghost Town & Calico Railway, a tourist railroad within Knott's Berry Farm, a theme park in Buena Park, California

[edit] Other

• Calico Skies, the sixth song on Paul McCartney's 1997 album, Flaming Pie.

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