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
The Cuban black hawk (''Buteogallus gundlachii'') is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. It is endemic to Cuba and several outlying cays.
Taxonomy
German ornithologist Jean Cabanis described the Cuban black hawk in 1855. It was considered ...
, ''Buteogallus gundlachii''
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Great black hawk, ''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'', a 1911 statue by Lorado Taft
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Blackhawk (band), 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, a film distributor
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Blackhawk Network Holdings, 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
The Black Hawk Hotel is an historic building located in downtown Cedar Falls, Iowa, United States. It was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. In 2017 it was included as a contributing property in the Cedar Falls ...
, 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) 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 "Blackhawks", a U.S. Navy helicopter squadron
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Sikorsky S-67 Blackhawk, a prototype attack helicopter
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Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk, 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) (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) (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
Black Hawk is an unincorporated community in Caldwell and Trigg counties, Kentucky
Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper ...
, 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
Blackhawk is an unincorporated community in Carroll County, Illinois, United States. Balckhawk is located near Illinois Route 84, north of Savanna
A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland-grassland (i.e. grassy woodland) ecosystem charact ...
, 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 in Vigo County, the Frank Senour R ...
, an unincorporated town
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Blackhawk, Ohio Blackhawk is an unincorporated community in Warren County, in the U.S. state of Ohio. A variant spelling is "Black Hawk".
History
Black Hawk was platted in 1838. The community has the name of Black Hawk Black Hawk and Blackhawk may refer to:
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, an unincorporated community
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Blackhawk, South Dakota
Black Hawk (sometimes Blackhawk) is an unincorporated census-designated place (CDP) in Meade County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 3,026 at the 2020 census. Black Hawk has been assigned the ZIP code of 57718. Located along Int ...
, an unincorporated census-designated place
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Blackhawk, West Virginia
Blackhawk is an unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia
West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographe ...
, 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
Atlanta Blackhawks was an American soccer team based in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Founded in 2009, the team played in the USL Premier Development League (PDL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, in the Southeast Division of the ...
, 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
The Lincoln Haymakers were a professional indoor football team based in Lincoln, Nebraska. The Haymakers played their 2013–2014 home games at the Pershing Center.
The Haymakers were the second indoor football team to call Lincoln home, followin ...
, 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, a former American soccer team
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Tri-Cities Blackhawks, an American team now known as the Atlanta Hawks
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Waterloo Black Hawks, 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)
The Blackhawk was an automobile manufactured by the Stutz Motor Car Company in Indianapolis from 1929 to 1930.
The Blackhawk was not as powerful, nor as expensive, as contemporary Stutzes, which is most likely why it was marketed as a separate ...
, 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
The Buick Blackhawk is a retro concept 2+2 convertible built by Buick in 2003. Its grille is based on 1939 Buick automobiles and the Buick Y-Job concept car, while its main body is based on the 1948 Buick Roadmaster. It features a retractable har ...
, a retro concept 2+2 convertible built by Buick in 2001
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Stutz Blackhawk, 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, Moline, Illinois
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Ruger Blackhawk, 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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