Cannonball

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A cannonball is round shot ammunition for a cannon.

By analogy, cannonball is also the name or nickname of:

• A diving technique in swimming; unlike competitive diving techniques, however, its purpose is to maximize, rather than minimize, splash on water entry.

People

• Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, jazz alto saxophonist
• Erwin G. "Cannon Ball" Baker, (1882-1960), man who traveled across the USA several times, and in whose honor, the Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash (aka "The Cannonball Run") was created
• Frank "Cannonball" Richards, a vaudeville performer whose act involved being shot in the gut with a cannonball

Fictional Characters

• Experiment 520, a character from Disney's Lilo & Stitch: The Series
• Cannonball (Transformers), the Decepticon space pirate in the Transformers toy line.
• Cannonball (comics), Sam Guthrie, a Marvel Comics character associated with the X-Men.

Movies

• Cannonball (1976), a film inspired by Erwin G. "Cannon Ball" Baker and his race
• The Cannonball Run (1981)
• Cannonball Run II (1984)

Music albums/songs

• Cannonball (Pat Green album), an album by Pat Green
• "Cannonball" (The Breeders song), a song by the Breeders from the album Last Splash
• "Cannonball" (Supertramp song), a song by Supertramp from the album Brother Where You Bound
• "Cannonball" (Damien Rice song)", a song by Damien Rice from his 2002 album O
• "Cannonball", a song by Five Iron Frenzy from their 2004 album The End Is Near
• "Cannonball", a song by Dog Eat Dog from their album Walk with Me

Places

• Cannon Ball, North Dakota, a city in the USA
• Cannon ball roller coaster, a wooden roller coaster at Lake Winnepesaukah, Georgia/Tennessee border

Television series

• Cannonball (TV series), a TV show about two truck drivers, produced in Canada in 1958-59 and syndicated in the U.S. in 1959-60

Trains

• The Cannonball an Illinois Central passenger train routing between Chicago and New Orleans, now designated in modern times as the City of New Orleans
• The Cannonball, a train operated by the Long Island Rail Road along its Montauk Branch

Video Games

• Cannonballs A video game created by WildTangent.

[edit] See also

• Cannonball MC
• Cannonball Run
• "Galileo's Cannonball", the first episode of Legends of the Hidden Temple

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