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The black swan was a literary or artistic image among Europeans even before their arrival in Australia. Cultural reference has been based on symbolic contrast and as a distinctive motif. The black swan's role in Australian heraldry and culture extends to the first founding of the colonies in the eighteenth century.
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Pages in category "Black swans" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Black swan; E.
According to the man who coined the term 'black swan,' one can’t fully understand what will cause them, or how they will play out.
The black swans mated, as did their offspring with each other, and by 1935 there was a small herd. [19] [13] In July 1938, three of the black swans left Chartwell in what biographer Stefan Buczacki has called "a celebrated avian burst for freedom". [13] Buczacki writes, "the local and national press pounced on the story and accounts ensued of ...
Jeenah Moon—Bloomberg via Getty Images Nassim Taleb, who wrote the book The Black Swan about unpredictable events, is worried about the role of the U.S. dollar in global finance.
The Roman satirist Juvenal wrote in AD 82 of rara avis in terris nigroque simillima cygno ("a rare bird in the lands, and very like a black swan"). [6] He meant something whose rarity would compare with that of a black swan, or in other words, as a black swan was not thought to exist, neither did the supposed characteristics of the "rare bird" with which it was being compared.