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Encyclopedia > Shark (disambiguation)
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Shark may refer to: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ...

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Animals

  • Shark, a group of cartilaginous fishes
  • Red-tailed black shark is a small fish in the carp family
  • Shark (moth), Cucullia umbratica, a noctuid moth species
  • Bala shark, a popular cyprinid in the home aquarium

For other uses, see Shark (disambiguation). ... Binomial name Epalzeorhynchos bicolor (Smith, 1931) The red-tailed black shark, Epalzeorhynchos bicolor, also known as the redtail shark, is a species of freshwater fish in the carp family, Cyprinidae. ... Binomial name Cucullia umbratica Linnaeus, 1758 The Shark (Cucullia umbratica) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. ... Binomial name Balantiocheilus melanopterus The Bala shark (Balantiocheilus melanopterus), also known as the Tricolor Shark, Silver Shark, or Shark Minnow, is a schooling community fish of family Cyprinidae. ... Genera (many, see text) The family Cyprinidae, named after the Greek word for goldfish, consists of the carps and minnows. ...

Individuals

Personal Information Birth February 10, 1955 ) Mount Isa, Queensland Nationality  Australia Wife Laura (married 1981, divorced 2007) Children Morgan Leigh, and Gregory Residence Hobe Sound, Florida Career Turned Pro 1974 Current Tour PGA Tour Professional wins 87 (PGA Tour: 20, European Tour: 14, PGA Tour of Australasia: 33, Other: 22... John Anthony Tenta (June 22, 1963 – June 7, 2006) was a Canadian professional wrestler, best known for his work in the World Wrestling Federation as Earthquake. ... Michele Sindona (died 1986) was an Italian banker and convicted felon. ...

Types of people

  • Pool shark, a pool/billiards hustler (sometimes also used simply to refer to a skilled but honest player)
  • Card shark, an alternative term for card sharp (again, usually a term for a hustler or cheat, but sometimes also refers to an honest, skilled player or card trick performer)
  • Loan shark, one who offers unsecured loans at high interest rates, often backed by threats of violence

Hustling is the deceptive act of disguising ones skill in a sport or game with the intent of luring someone of probably lesser skill into gambling (or gambling for higher than current stakes) with the hustler, as a form of confidence trick. ... The Cardsharps, c. ... A loan shark is a person or body that offers illegal unsecured loans at high interest rates to individuals, often backed by blackmail or threats of violence. ...

In entertainment

Shark is the name of 3 DC Comics characters. ... Shark is an American television show that is a part of the new crop of CBS shows in the Fall 2006 line up. ... This article contains a trivia section. ... GameShark is the brand name of a line of video game cheat cartridges and other products for a variety of console video game systems and Windows based computers. ...

Sports teams

See Sharks.

Sharks may refer to: sharks Sharks, a group of cartilaginous fishes Cronulla Sharks, an Australian rugby league team East Fremantle Sharks, an Australian rules football team Los Angeles Sharks, a former U.S. ice hockey team Orlando Sharks, a U.S. Indoor Soccer team Sale Sharks, a UK rugby union...

Computing

Aside from their main developer tools Xcode and Interface Builder, Apple Computer also provide a number of other tools that aid software developers in creating applications for the Apple Macintosh platform. ... is a completely configurable kernel architecture designed for supporting hard, soft, and non real-time applications with interchangeable scheduling algorithms. ... The IBM Enterprise Storage Server (ESS) or the Shark is an enterprise storage array from IBM. Originally, in 1998 IBM released the IBM 2105 Versatile Storage Server (VSS). ...

Misc. products

The Rotopress is a European garbage truck manufactured by the German company Faun GmbH. Originally a French design, later interpreted by a British company known as Laird Engineering Ltd, the Rotopress is a continuously compacting garbage truck, meaning that the compacting process carries on uninterrupted, with no user intervention required... Shark Stimulation or Shark Energy Drink is an energy drink which is available in a number of variations including fizzy and still versions. ...

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