Black Swan (disambiguation)
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Black Swan is the common name for Cygnus atratus, an Australian waterfowl. It is the state emblem of Western Australia.
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Black Swan may also refer to:
[edit] Arts, literature and entertainment
- Black Swan Arts, a centre for contemporary arts and crafts in Frome, North Somerset, UK
- Black Swan Records, a record label
- "The Black Swan", nickname of 19th century singer Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield
- The Black Swan (book), a book about randomness and uncertainty by epistemologist Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- The Black Swan (film), a 1942 swashbuckler film adaptated from the novel by Rafael Sabatini
- The Black Swan (novel), a fantasy novel by Mercedes Lackey
- The Black Swans, an indie rock band
[edit] Songs and albums
- "Black Swan" (song), is the title of a track on Thom Yorke's 2006 album The Eraser
- The Black Swan (Bert Jansch album), by the folk singer-songwriter Bert Jansch
- The Black Swan (Story of the Year album), an album from the band Story of the Year.
- The Black Swan (The Triffids album), by the Australian rock band The Triffids
[edit] Fictional people and places
- Black Swan, the name of a German Marvel Comics mercenary and enemy to Deadpool and Agent X
- The Black Swan (pub), a fictional pub in the UK soap opera Family Affairs
[edit] Maritime
- Black Swan class sloop, a class of sloops built by the United Kingdom during World War II
- Black Swan Project, code name of a shipwreck recovery project, possibly the richest-ever
[edit] Mathematics
- Black swan theory, a term developed by Nassim Taleb to label unexpected, rare events
- The Black Swan (book), Taleb's book on the theory
[edit] Publishing and printing
- Black Swan is an imprint of Transworld Publishers, UK.
- Inverted Swan, a famous stamp featuring a printing error
[edit] See also
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