clio

The goddess of history and heroic poetry, and one of the Muses; the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne.

84 Klio, a main belt asteroid.

A female given name from Ancient Greek.

Ellipsis of Renault Clio (“a model of car manufactured by Renault”).

A city in Alabama.

In 1891, he settled in tiny Clio, Alabama, a hamlet of 13 families founded after the Civil War without the antebellum pretensions of nearby Eufala.

A statuette holding a globe given at the Clio Awards, an annual award program that recognizes innovation and creative excellence in advertising, design, and communication.

[Al] Horvat landed the role of a ballplayer, wielding a huge baseball glove and mugging for the camera. “Three or four months later,” Horvat says, “the director calls me and says, ‘Al, you won a Clio.’ ‘Yeah?’ I say. ‘What’s a Clio?’ I have actors come in here all the time. They would die for that thing.”

In all there were 67 winners for 57 commercials in 53 categories, in both the product and production areas. Not only do agencies enter their commercials to be judged for creative excellence but so do companies involved in the various facets of production. So two outfits entering the same work can each take a Clio, as was the case with Federal Express. […] McCann-Erickson won both its Clios with one of its biggest clients, Coca-Cola.

A car of the Renault Clio model manufactured by Renault.

Fred loved to take his Clio for a spin.

The world record is held by Terry Grant, who reverse-swerved his Renault into a slot only 32cm longer than the overall length of his car. Impressive stuff and it made me wonder what he could have pulled off with the Renaultsport 200 Cup – which, in case you hadn't spotted, is actually a Clio – with too few X chromosomes. It's exactly 20 years since the first Clio was produced – taking over the mantle of the much-loved Renault 5.