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.
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.
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.
Air is the name given to the atmosphere of Earth.
Eternity is a term in philosophy referring to the idea of forever or to timelessness.
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.
Shade, Shades or Shading may refer to:
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 a Latin expression which presumed that black swans did not exist. The expression was used until around 1697 when Dutch mariners saw them in Australia. After this, the term was 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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