Methuselah (disambiguation)
Methuselah, a Biblical figure, was known for living a long time. Methuselah may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Fictional characters and creatures
- Methuselah (Redwall), a character in the Redwall novels by Brian Jacques
- Methuselah (Trinity Blood), a fictional offshoot of Humanity that appear in the anime Trinity Blood
- Methuselah (World of Darkness), an ancient and manipulative vampire in White Wolf's novels, RPGs and playable cards
- The Howard families, sometimes described as "Methuselahs" in the books of Robert A. Heinlein including Methuselah's Children
- Methuselah, the nickname of Rain Jewlitt, a 624-year-old character in the Immortal Rain manga
- Methuselah, a mouse in Yann Martel's novel Life of Pi (2001) that lived for an unusually long time in a zoo's viper exhibit
- Methuselah, the Price family's pet parrot in Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible
Films
- "Methuselah Syndrome", a disease involving premature aging In the film Blade Runner (1982)
- The biblical Methusaleh is portrayed by Anthony Hopkins In the film Noah (2014)
Music
- Methuselah, the sixth track on San Fermin's self titled debut (2013)
Television
- An immortal character in the Star Trek episode "Requiem for Methuselah" (1969) whose many identities include the biblical Methuselah
Science and technology
- Methuselah (cellular automaton), a long-surviving pattern in Conway's Game of Life
- Methuselah-like proteins, insect proteins that extend the life span of the animal
- Methuselah (planet), believed to be the oldest known exosolar planet, orbiting a pulsar/white dwarf binary 12400 light years from Earth in the Messier 4 globular cluster
- Methuselah, an outcrop on Mars discovered by Spirit Rover
- "Methuselah star", nickname for HD 140283, the oldest-known star
- Methuselah Mouse Prize (Mprize), awarded for development of new life extension therapies in mice. Founded in 2003
Long-lived organisms
- Methuselah (Judean date palm), a palm tree grown from a 2000-year-old seed at Ketura, Israel
- Methuselah (tree), the second oldest known Great Basin Bristlecone Pine tree in the White Mountains of California, the second oldest known living tree
- Methuselah (sequoia tree), a giant sequoia, the 27th largest tree in the world, in Sequoia National Forest, California
Organizations
- The Methuselah Foundation, a biomedical charitable organization dedicated to extending healthy life
Other uses
- Methuselah (bond), a financial instrument with a 50-year maturity
- Methuselah, one of several large wine bottle sizes; a Methuselah contains six litres of wine.
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