Berk
Berk may refer to: * Berk (name), a surname, given name, or any of several people with that name * Berk, Bolu, Turkey, a village * Berk Trade and Business School, New York City * Berk, a fictional island in the ''How to Train Your Dragon'' series of books and films * , a torpedo cruiser of the Ottoman Navy later renamed ''Berk'' * Berk, rhyming slang#Taboo terms, rhyming slang often used to mean "foolish person" * ''Berk.'', taxonomic author abbreviation of Miles Joseph Berkeley (1803–1889), English cryptogamist and founder of the science of plant pathology See also

* Berk–Tabatznik syndrome, a medical condition * De Berk (other) * Berks (other) * Birk (other) {{disambiguation ...
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Miles Joseph Berkeley
Miles Joseph Berkeley (1 April 1803 – 30 July 1889) was an English cryptogamist and clergyman, and one of the founders of the science of plant pathology. Life Berkeley was born at Biggin Hall, Benefield, Northamptonshire, and educated at Rugby School and Christ's College, Cambridge. Taking holy orders, he became incumbent of Apethorpe in 1837, and vicar of Sibbertoft, near Market Harborough, in 1868. He acquired an enthusiastic love of cryptogamic botany (lichens) in his early years, and soon was recognized as the leading British authority on fungi and plant pathology. Christ's College made him an honorary fellow in 1883. He was well known as a systematist in mycology with some 6000 species of fungi being credited to him, but his ''Introduction to Cryptogamic Botany'', published in 1857, and his papers on Vegetable Pathology in the ''Gardener's Chronicle'' in 1854 and onwards, show that he had a broad grasp of the whole domain of physiology and morphology as understood in ...
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How To Train Your Dragon
''How to Train Your Dragon'' (abbreviated ''HTTYD'') is an American media franchise from DreamWorks Animation and loosely based on the eponymous series of children's books by British author Cressida Cowell. It consists of three feature films: '' How to Train Your Dragon'' (2010), ''How to Train Your Dragon 2'' (2014) and '' How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World'' (2019). The franchise also contains five short films: ''Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon'' (2010), ''Book of Dragons'' (2010), ''Gift of the Night Fury'' (2011), ''Dawn of the Dragon Racers'' (2014) and '' How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming'' (2019). The television series based on the events of the first film, '' DreamWorks Dragons'', began airing on Cartoon Network in September 2012. The first and second seasons were titled ''Dragons: Riders of Berk'' and ''Dragons: Defenders of Berk'' respectively. After the two seasons on Cartoon Network, the series was given the new title ''Dragons: Race to the Edge''. The ch ...
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Berk (name)
Berk is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname *Ailsa Berk, British actress and choreographer *Ari Berk (born 1967), American writer, artist, and scholar *Ariel Berk, a pen name of American author Judith Arnold (born 1953) * Brent Berk (born 1949), American former competition swimmer *Dick Berk (born 1939), American musician * Henrietta Berk (1919–1990), American painter *İlhan Berk (1918–2008), Turkish poet *John van den Berk (born 1967), Dutch motorcyclist *Josh Berk, American author *Lawrence Berk (1908–1995), American founder of the Berklee College of Music, pianist, composer, and educator *Lee Eliot Berk (born 1942), American former president of the Berklee College of Music, son of Lawrence *Lotte Berk (1913–2003), German-British dancer and dance teacher *Lucia de Berk (born 1961), Dutch nurse wrongfully convicted of murder *Michael Berk (fl. 1980s–2010s), American screenwriter *Nick Berk (born 1980), American professional wr ...
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Berks (other)
Berks may refer to: Places * Berkshire, England * Berks, Nebraska, United States * Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States Other uses * ''Berks'' (TV series), Filipino television series * Berks station, a SEPTA station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania * Robert Berks (1922–2011), American sculptor and industrial designer See also * St. Berks, a BBC children's radio program * Berk (other) * Birks (other) * Berkes, surname * Burks (other) * Burke's Peerage, British genealogical publisher * Birk (other) * Burk (other) * Burke Burke is an Anglo-Norman Irish surname, deriving from the ancient Anglo-Norman and Hiberno-Norman noble dynasty, the House of Burgh. In Ireland, the descendants of William de Burgh (–1206) had the surname ''de Burgh'' which was gaelicised ...

Berk Trade And Business School
Berk Trade and Business School is a private, for-profit trade and vocational schools in New York City. It was founded in 1940 and is one of the oldest trade and vocational schools in the city. The school's founder, Irving Berk, was committed to trade and vocational education. The school develops entry-level skills for the building trades, specifically plumbing, electrical installation and building maintenance. Originally, the school was one of the first trade schools to teach plumbing installation in the country. Berk was a plumber by trade and later decided to add electrical installation to the school's curriculum. The school also taught other trades, such as nursing and phlebotomy, at three different branches before it returned to its original buildings trades model. See also *Vocational education Vocational education is education that prepares people to work as a technician or to take up employment in a skilled craft or trade as a tradesperson or artisan. Vocational ...
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Rhyming Slang
Rhyming slang is a form of slang word construction in the English language. It is especially prevalent among Cockneys in England, and was first used in the early 19th century in the East End of London; hence its alternative name, Cockney rhyming slang. In the US, especially the criminal underworld of the West Coast between 1880 and 1920, rhyming slang has sometimes been known as Australian slang. The construction of rhyming slang involves replacing a common word with a phrase of two or more words, the last of which rhymes with the original word; then, in almost all cases, omitting, from the end of the phrase, the secondary rhyming word (which is thereafter implied), Bryson, a humourist, states that there is a special name given to this omission: "the word that rhymes is almost always dropped... There's a technical term for this process as well: hemiteleia". Given that this is a genus of plant species, and appears in no readily available sources as a linguistic term, it is unclea ...
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Berk, Bolu
Berk is a village in the central district of Bolu Province, Turkey. It is situated south of Bolu and to the north of Köroğlu Mountains. The population of Berk was 918 as of 2013. According to village website, the village was named after a Turkmen tribe and was mentioned in the Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ... documents of 1533. The village economy depends on farming. Legumes and other vegetables are the main crops. References Villages in Bolu District {{Bolu-geo-stub ...
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Berk–Tabatznik Syndrome
Berk–Tabatznik syndrome is a medical condition with an unknown cause that shows symptoms of short stature, congenital optic atrophy and brachytelephalangy. This condition is extremely rare with only two cases being found. See also * Heart-hand diseases * Rare disease A rare disease is any disease that affects a small percentage of the population. In some parts of the world, an orphan disease is a rare disease whose rarity means there is a lack of a market large enough to gain support and resources for discove ... References Further reading * External links Rare syndromes Syndromes affecting stature Syndromes affecting the optic nerve {{congenital-malformation-stub ...
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De Berk (other)
De Berk (''The Birch Tree'') may refer to People *Lucia de Berk (born 1961), Dutch nurse wrongfully convicted of murder Places * De Berk, North Brabant, Netherlands Windmills *De Berk, Drenthe De Berk (English: '' The Birch'') is a smock mill in Barger-Compascuum, Netherlands. It was built in 1983. History De Berk was originally built c. 1850 at Drantum, Lower Saxony, Germany. It was rebuilt after a fire in 1870. (Click on "Geschieden ...