Mercury most commonly refers to:
Firebird and fire bird may refer to:
Mephisto or Mephistopheles is one of the chief demons of German literary tradition.
Revelation, in religion and theology, is the act of revealing through communication with supernatural entities.
An eclipse is an astronomical event.
An empire is a group of states or peoples under centralized rule.
The White Rabbit is a character in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Fire is the rapid oxidation of a material in the chemical process of combustion.
Swan song is a reference to an ancient, controversial belief that swans sing just before they die, and also an idiom for a final performance or accomplishment.
A millennium is 1000 years.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese-American essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, risk analyst, and aphorist. His work concerns problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty.
A swan is a bird of the genus Cygnus or Coscoroba.
Eternity is a term in philosophy referring to the idea of forever or to timelessness.
A sanctuary is a place of safety.
The Tartar Steppe, also published as The Stronghold, is a novel by Italian author Dino Buzzati, published in 1940. The novel tells the story of a young officer, Giovanni Drogo, and his life spent guarding the Bastiani Fortress, an old, unmaintained border fortress. The work was influenced by the 1904 poem "Waiting for the Barbarians" by Constantine P. Cavafy.
The black swan theory or theory of black swan events is a metaphor that describes an event that comes as a surprise, has a major effect, and is often inappropriately rationalized after the fact with the benefit of hindsight. The term is based on an ancient Roman saying expressing the European presumption that black swans did not exist until Dutch mariners saw them in Australia in 1697, and the term was then reinterpreted to mean an unforeseen and consequential event.
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable is a 2007 book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, who is a former options trader. The book focuses on the extreme impact of rare and unpredictable outlier events—and the human tendency to find simplistic explanations for these events, retrospectively. Taleb calls this the Black Swan theory.
Heartland or Heartlands may refer to:
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