Black Hawk and Blackhawk may refer to:
Animals
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Black Hawk (horse)
Black Hawk (1833–1856) was an influential Morgan horse sire.
Life
Black Hawk was foaled in April 1833. He was sired by Sherman Morgan and out of an unnamed mare who was reputed to be half Thoroughbred. He was a solid black stallion with n ...
, a Morgan horse that lived from 1833 to 1856
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Common black hawk
The common black hawk (''Buteogallus anthracinus'') is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae, which also includes the eagles, hawks, and Old World vultures.
Description
The adult common black-hawk is long and weighs on average. It has very ...
, ''Buteogallus anthracinus''
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Cuban black hawk, ''Buteogallus gundlachii''
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Great black hawk
The great black hawk (''Buteogallus urubitinga'') is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae, which also includes the eagles, hawks, and Old World vultures.
Taxonomy
The great black hawk was Species description, formally described in 1788 by t ...
, ''Buteogallus urubitinga''
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Mangrove black hawk
The mangrove black hawk (''Buteogallus anthracinus subtilis'') is a neotropics, neotropical bird of prey in the family (biology), family Accipitridae native to South and Central America. Briefly treated as a distinct species, ''Buteogallus subtil ...
, ''Buteogallus (anthracinus) subtilis''
Arts, entertainment, and media
Comics
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Blackhawk (DC Comics)
Blackhawk is the eponymous fictional character of the long-running comic book series ''Blackhawk'' first published by Quality Comics and later by DC Comics. Primarily created by Chuck Cuidera with input from both Bob Powell and Will Eisner, the ...
, an aviator comic book hero and leader of a team named Blackhawks
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''Blackhawk'' (radio), a 1950 ABC radio series based on the comic book
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''Blackhawk'' (serial), a 1952 Columbia serial based on the comic book
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Blackhawk (Tornado)
''Blackhawk'' was a comic strip appearing on the British magazine ''Tornado'', created by Gerry Finley-Day. It was one of three strips to transfer from ''Tornado'' to '' 2000 AD'' after the two merged.
Plot synopsis
At the time of the Roman Empi ...
, a ''Tornado''/''2000 AD'' comic book character
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''Blackhawks'' (DC Comics), a 2011 comic book series
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
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Black Hawk Statue
''The Eternal Indian'', sometimes called the Black Hawk Statue, is a 48-foot (14.6 m) sculpture by Lorado Taft located in Lowden State Park, near the city of Oregon, Illinois. Dedicated in 1911, the statue is perched over the Rock River on a 77- ...
'', a 1911 statue by Lorado Taft
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Blackhawk (band)
Blackhawk (stylized as BlackHawk) is an American country music group founded in 1992 by Henry Paul (lead vocals, mandolin, acoustic guitar), Van Stephenson (background vocals, electric guitar), and Dave Robbins (background vocals, keyboards). Pri ...
, a country music band
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''Blackhawk'' (album), an album by Blackhawk
* Blackhawk, a fictional type of spaceship in Peter F. Hamilton's ''
The Night's Dawn Trilogy
British author Peter F. Hamilton's ''The Night's Dawn Trilogy'' consists of three science fiction novels: '' The Reality Dysfunction'' (1996), ''The Neutronium Alchemist'' (1997), and ''The Naked God'' (1999). A collection of short stories, ' ...
'' novels
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Blackthorne
''Blackthorne'' (released as ''Blackhawk'' in some European countries) is a cinematic platform game developed by Blizzard Entertainment. It was released for the Super NES and MS-DOS in 1994. The cover art for the SNES version was drawn by Jim Le ...
'' or ''Blackhawk'', a 1994 video game
Brands and enterprises
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Blackhawk (tools)
Blackhawk is an American brand of hand tools. It is currently a sub-brand of the Proto (tools), Proto division of the Stanley Black & Decker.
History
Blackhawk Manufacturing was founded in 1919 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin as a subsidiary of the Am ...
, a brand of the Stanley Works
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Blackhawk Films Black Hawk and Blackhawk may refer to:
Animals
* Black Hawk (horse), a Morgan horse that lived from 1833 to 1856
* Common black hawk, ''Buteogallus anthracinus''
* Cuban black hawk, ''Buteogallus gundlachii''
* Great black hawk, ''Buteogallus uru ...
, a film distributor
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Blackhawk Network Holdings
Blackhawk Network Holdings Inc. is an American privately held company that operates in the prepaid, gift card and payments industries. It sells branded physical and digital gifts, phones, prepaid debit, and incentives cards online and through a ...
, an American corporation
Hospitality
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Black Hawk (nightclub)
The Black Hawk was a San Francisco nightclub that featured live jazz performances during its period of operation from 1949 to 1963. It was located on the corner of Turk Street and Hyde Street in San Francisco's Tenderloin District. Guido Caccienti ...
, a jazz venue in San Francisco
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Black Hawk Hotel, a hotel in Cedar Falls, Iowa
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Blackhawk (restaurant)
The Blackhawk was a restaurant in the Chicago Loop from 1920 to 1984. It served a menu of American cuisine, notably prime rib and a signature "spinning salad bowl", and was, in the early part of its history a nationally known entertainment venue ...
, a restaurant and supper club first in Chicago and then in Wheeling
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Hotel Blackhawk
The Hotel Blackhawk is an eleven-story brick and terra cotta building located in Downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States. It is a Marriott Autograph Collection property.
The hotel is connected to the north building of the RiverCenter, Davenport ...
, a hotel Davenport, Iowa
Military
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86th Infantry Division (United States)
The 86th Infantry Division, also known as the Blackhawk Division, was a unit of the United States Army in World War I and World War II.
Currently called the 86th Training Division, based at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, members of the division now work ...
or Black Hawk Division
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Curtiss-Wright XF-87 Blackhawk
The Curtiss-Wright XF-87 Blackhawk (previously designated the XP-87) was a prototype American all-weather jet fighter-interceptor, and the company's last aircraft project. Designed as a replacement for the World War II–era propeller-driven P- ...
, a prototype jet fighter
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HM-15
Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 15 (HM-15) is a United States Navy helicopter squadron established in 1987 and based at Naval Station Norfolk. Nicknamed the "Blackhawks" and flying the MH-53E Sea Dragon, it is staffed by both active du ...
"Blackhawks", a U.S. Navy helicopter squadron
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Sikorsky S-67 Blackhawk
The Sikorsky S-67 Blackhawk was a private-venture, prototype attack helicopter built in 1970 with Sikorsky Aircraft research and development (R&D) funds. A tandem, two-seat aircraft designed around the dynamic drive and rotor systems of the Sik ...
, a prototype attack helicopter
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Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk
The Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk is a four-blade, twin-engine, medium-lift Utility helicopter, utility military helicopter manufactured by Sikorsky Aircraft. Sikorsky submitted the S-70 design for the United States Army's Utility Tactical Transpo ...
, a US Army utility helicopter
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USS ''Black Hawk'' (1848), a tinclad gunboat
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USS ''Black Hawk'' (AD-9), a Black Hawk-class destroyer tender 1913 to 1947
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USS ''Black Hawk'' (MHC-58), an Osprey-class minehunter coastal
People
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Black Hawk (artist)
''Čhetáŋ Sápa' '' (Black Hawk) (c. 1832 c. 1890) was a medicine man and member of the Sans Arc or ''Itázipčho'' band of the Lakota people. He is most known for a series of 76 drawings that were later bound into a ledger book that depicts ...
(c. 1832–c. 1890), Sans Arc Lakota artist
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Black Hawk (lacrosse)
Competitor for Canada
Black Hawk (born 23 May 1877, date of death unknown) was a First Nations lacrosse player who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics for Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three ...
, Native American lacrosse player
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Black Hawk (Sauk leader)
Black Hawk, born ''Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak'' (Sauk: ''Mahkatêwe-meshi-kêhkêhkwa'') (1767 – October 3, 1838), was a Sauk leader and warrior who lived in what is now the Midwestern United States
The Midwestern United States, also r ...
(1767–1838), Sauk and Fox leader
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Antonga Black Hawk
Antonga, or Black Hawk (born c. 1830; died September 26, 1870), was a nineteenth-century war chief of the Timpanogos Tribe in what is the present-day state of Utah. He led the Timpanogos against Mormon settlers and gained alliances with Paiute ...
(c. 1830–1870), Ute leader
Places
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Black Hawk, Colorado
Black Hawk is a home rule municipality located in Gilpin County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 127 at the 2020 United States Census, making Black Hawk the least populous city (rather than town) in Colorado. The tiny city is a ...
, a home rule municipality
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Black Hawk, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
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Black Hawk, Louisiana
Blackhawk is a rural community near Shaw, Louisiana, Shaw in Concordia Parish, Louisiana, Corcordia Parish, Louisiana, United States, on the west bank of the Mississippi River. It was one of the last rural areas of Louisiana to receive reliable p ...
, an unincorporated community
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Black Hawk, Mississippi
Black Hawk, also spelled Blackhawk, is an unincorporated community located in Carroll County, Mississippi, approximately southeast of Greenwood on Mississippi Highway 430 and approximately north of Acona. Black Hawk is part of the Greenwood, M ...
, an unincorporated community
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Black Hawk Bridge __NOTOC__
The Black Hawk Bridge spans the Mississippi River, joining the town of Lansing, in Allamakee County, Iowa, to rural Crawford County, Wisconsin. It is the northernmost Mississippi River bridge in Iowa.
Named for Chief Black Hawk, it is p ...
, a bridge over the Mississippi River between Iowa and Wisconsin
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Black Hawk County, Iowa
Black Hawk County is a county in the northeastern part of U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2020 census, the population was 131,144, making it Iowa's fifth-most populous county. The county seat is Waterloo.
Black Hawk County is part of the Water ...
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Black Hawk Lake (Sac County, Iowa)
Black Hawk Lake is a natural glacially-formed lake measuring in area in Sac County, Iowa, at the eastern edge of the city of Lake View, Iowa in Viola and Wall Lake Townships. It exits through the oddly named "Ditch No. 57" to Indian Creek, a tri ...
, a glacial lake
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Black Hawk Purchase
The Black Hawk Purchase, also known as the Forty-Mile Strip or Scott's Purchase, extended along the West side of the Mississippi River from the north boundary of Missouri North to the Upper Iowa River in the northeast corner of Iowa. It was fif ...
, an historical region of Iowa
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Blackhawk, California
Blackhawk is an unincorporated planned community and census-designated place located in Contra Costa County, California, United States, east of Danville and Oakland. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 9,354. Governed by county rules/ ...
, an unincorporated community and census-designated place
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Blackhawk, Illinois, an unincorporated community
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Blackhawk, Indiana
Blackhawk is an unincorporated community in Pierson Township, Vigo County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. The nearest official town is Riley. Blackhawk has one listing on the National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Hi ...
, an unincorporated town
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Blackhawk, Ohio, an unincorporated community
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Blackhawk, South Dakota, an unincorporated census-designated place
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Blackhawk, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
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Black Hawk, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
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Blackhawk Park
Blackhawk Park is a park in Vernon County, Wisconsin within the Driftless Area along the Mississippi River. The park features views of steep limestone bluffs and the river valleys. Wildlife viewing is a popular activity, including the variety of ...
, Vernon County, Wisconsin
Sports
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Atlanta Blackhawks, a former American soccer team
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Chicago Blackhawks
The Chicago Blackhawks (spelled Black Hawks until 1986, and known colloquially as the Hawks) are a professional ice hockey team based in Chicago. The Blackhawks compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Central Division i ...
, an American team in the National Hockey League
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Iowa Blackhawks, an American indoor football team now known as the Lincoln Haymakers
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Plattling Black Hawks
The Plattling Black Hawks are an American football team from Plattling, Germany. The club was, until 2004, known as the Deggendorf Black Hawks.
The club's greatest success was earning a promotion to the German Football League in 2008 and qualifyi ...
, an American football club from Plattling, Germany
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San Francisco Bay Blackhawks
San Francisco Bay Blackhawks were a professional soccer team which came into existence in 1989 as a team in the Western Soccer League (WSL). The Blackhawks spent time in the American Professional Soccer League (APSL) and the United States Interr ...
, a former American soccer team
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Tri-Cities Blackhawks Tri-Cities most often refers to:
*Tri-Cities, Tennessee, United States
*Tri-Cities, Washington, United States
Tri-City, Tricity or Tri-Cities may also refer to:
Populated places
Americas
Canada
*Tri-Cities (British Columbia), consisting of Co ...
, an American team now known as the Atlanta Hawks
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Waterloo Black Hawks
The Waterloo Black Hawks are a Tier I junior ice hockey team playing in the Western Conference of the United States Hockey League (USHL) under president and general manager P.K. O'Handley. The Black Hawks' home ice is the Young Arena in Waterl ...
, an American junior hockey team
Transportation
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''Black Hawk'' (Amtrak train), a passenger train between Chicago and Dubuque, Iowa
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''Black Hawk'' (CB&Q train), a former passenger train between Chicago, Illinois, and Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota
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''Black Hawk'' (steamboat), a steamboat built around 1850 and operated in California and Oregon
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Blackhawk (automobile), an automobile manufactured in 1929 and 1930 by the Stutz Motor Car Company in Indianapolis
* ''Blackhawk'', a
Carr Special
The Carr Special, also called the Carr Racer, the Saginaw Junior, and the Blackhawk, was an American low-wing monoplane racing aircraft developed in 1931.
Design and development
In 1932, the founder of Paramount Aircraft Corporation left his fai ...
racing aircraft of the 1930s
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Butler Blackhawk
The Butler Blackhawk and the Skyway from which it was developed were American three-seat open-cockpit single engine biplanes of the late 1920s that were built in small numbers immediately prior to having their intended production run interrupte ...
1920s US three-seat utility biplane
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Buick Blackhawk, a retro concept 2+2 convertible built by Buick in 2001
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Stutz Blackhawk
The Stutz Blackhawk is an American ultra-luxury car manufactured from 1971 through 1987. Other than the name it bears no resemblance to the original Blackhawk (1929–1930). The Stutz Motor Company was revived in August 1968 by New York ...
, a car manufactured from 1971 through 1987 named for the earlier Stutz car
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USS ''Black Hawk'', the name of several United States military vessels
Other uses
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Black Hawk College
Black Hawk College is a public community college in Illinois with campuses in Moline and Galva.
History
Black Hawk College is a community college with campuses located in Moline and in Kewanee ( south of Kewanee). Founded in 1946 as Moline ...
, Moline, Illinois
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Ruger Blackhawk
The Ruger Blackhawk is a six-shot, single-action revolver manufactured by Sturm, Ruger & Co. It is produced in a variety of finishes, calibers, and barrel lengths.
History
In the early 1950s, Westerns were popular in movies and television. Colt ...
, a single-action revolver
See also
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1994 Black Hawk shootdown incident
The 1994 Black Hawk shootdown incident, sometimes referred to as the Black Hawk Incident, was a friendly fire incident over northern Iraq that occurred on 14 April 1994 during Operation Provide Comfort (OPC). The pilots of two United States Ai ...
, a friendly fire incident over northern Iraq (different from Black Hawk Down)
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Black Hawk Down (disambiguation) Black Hawk Down may refer to: Military
*Battle of Mogadishu (1993), a battle between forces of the United States and Somali militia fighters
*1994 Black Hawk shootdown incident, a friendly fire incident over northern Iraq
Arts, entertainment, and ...
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Black Hawk War
The Black Hawk War was a conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader. The war erupted after Black Hawk and a group of Sauks, Meskwakis (Fox), and Kickapoos, known as the "British Band", crosse ...
(1832)
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Black Hawk War (1865–1872)
The Black Hawk War, or Black Hawk's War, is the name of the estimated 150 battles, skirmishes, raids, and military engagements taking place from 1865 to 1872, primarily between Mormon settlers in Sanpete County, Sevier County and other par ...
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