What is "black jack"

Scaup \Scaup\ (sk[add]p), n. [See Scalp a bed of oysters or mussels.]

1. A bed or stratum of shellfish; scalp. [Scot.]

2. (Zo["o]l.) A scaup duck. See below.

   Scaup duck (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of northern ducks of the genus Aythya, or Fuligula. The adult males are, in large part, black. The three North American species are: the greater scaup duck ( Aythya marila, var. nearctica), called also broadbill, bluebill, blackhead, flock duck, flocking fowl, and raft duck; the lesser scaup duck ( A. affinis), called also little bluebill, river broadbill, and shuffler; the tufted, or ring-necked, scaup duck ( A. collaris), called also black jack, ringneck, ringbill, ringbill shuffler, etc. See Illust. of Ring-necked duck, under Ring-necked. The common European scaup, or mussel, duck ( A. marila), closely resembles the American variety.

Jack \Jack\, n. [Named from its resemblance to a jack boot.] A pitcher or can of waxed leather; -- called also black jack. [Obs.]
--Dryden.

Ring-necked \Ring"-necked`\, a. (Zo["o]l.) Having a well defined ring of color around the neck.

Ring-necked duck (Zool.), an American scaup duck ( Aythya collaris). The head, neck, and breast of the adult male are black, and a narrow, but conspicuous, red ring encircles the neck. This ring is absent in the female. Called also ring-neck, ring-necked blackhead, ringbill, tufted duck, and black jack.

n. 1 (alternative spelling of blackjack English) 2 (taxlink Caranx lugubris species noshow=1), a gamefish 3 ''Bidens'' spp., from the family of Asteraceae 4 A blackjack oak, (taxlink Quercus marilandica species noshow=1), a small tree 5 sphalerite, a mineral sometimes called black-jack by miners

is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Osamu Tezuka in the 1970s, dealing with the medical adventures of the title character, doctor Black Jack.

Black Jack consists of hundreds of short, self-contained stories that are typically about 20 pages long. Black Jack has also been animated into an OVA, two television series (directed by Tezuka's son Makoto Tezuka) and two films. Black Jack is Tezuka's third most famous manga, after Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion. In 1977, it won the 1st Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen. About.com's Deb Aoki lists Black Jack as the best "re-issue of previously released material" of 2008. Osamu Dezaki's anime film adaptation, Black Jack The Movie, won Best Animation Film at the 1996 Mainichi Film Awards.

Blackjack is a popular casino-gambling card game.

Black Jack or Blackjack may also refer to:

Black Jack is an aniseed-flavored chewing gum made by Mondelēz International, originally the American Chicle Company.

In 1869, exiled former Mexican president and general Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna (famous for losing the Texas War of Independence) was living in New Jersey.

He brought a ton of Mexican chicle with him, in hopes of selling it to raise funds to help him return to power in his own country. He persuaded Thomas Adams of Staten Island, New York to buy it. Adams, a photographer and inventor, intended to vulcanize the chicle for use as a rubber substitute. Adams' efforts at vulcanization failed, but he noticed that Santa Anna liked to chew the chicle, which the ancient Mayans had done.

Disappointed with the rubber experiments, Adams boiled a small batch of chicle in his kitchen to create a chewing gum. He gave some to a local store to see if people would buy it; they did and he began production.

In 1871, Adams received a patent on a gum-making machine and began mass-producing chicle-based gum. His first product ("Snapping and Stretching") was pure chicle with no flavoring, but sold well enough to encourage Adams in his plans. He began to experiment with flavorings, beginning with sarsaparilla. In 1884, he began adding licorice flavoring and called his invention Adams' Black Jack, the first flavored gum in the U.S. It was also the first gum to be offered in sticks.

Black Jack Gum was sold well into the 1970s, when production ceased due to slow sales. American Chicle was purchased by the Warner-Lambert Company in 1962, which became part of Pfizer in 2000. In 2002, Adams was purchased by Cadbury, which merged with Kraft Foods in 2010 and became part of Mondelēz in 2012 following the split.

Black Jack chewing gum returned to the market in the 2000s, in limited quantities, often sold in candy specialty shops.

A coal-black Morgan- American Quarter Horse cross, Black Jack served in the Caisson Platoon of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard). Named in honor of General John J. (Black Jack) Pershing, he was the riderless horse in more than 1,000 Armed Forces Full Honors Funerals (AFFHF), the majority of which were in Arlington National Cemetery. With boots reversed in the stirrups, he was a symbol of a fallen leader.

Black Jack is a type of " aniseed flavour chew" according to its packaging. This means that it is a chewy (gelatin-based) confectionery. Black Jack is manufactured under the Barratt brand in Spain. In the 1920s Trebor Bassett manufactured them, and the wrapper showed gollywogs on it. An example of it can be seen at the V&A Museum of Childhood.

While still manufactured under Tangerine Confectionery, Black Jacks have been rebranded from Barratt to 'Candy Land' and the packaging, most notably the outer box, has been redesigned. (2013)

Black Jack is the nickname of the following people:

• John Vernou Bouvier III (1891–1957), father of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
• Jack Blackham (1854–1932), Australian cricketer
• Jack Brabham (born 1926), Australian motor racing world champion
• Jack Burdock (1852–1932), American Major League Baseball player and manager
• Black Jack Christian (1856?–1897), American western outlaw
• John Davidson (general) (1825–1881), American Civil War Union Army brigadier general and Indian fighter
• Frederick Galleghan (1897–1971), Australian Army major general
• Tom Ketchum (1863–1901), American western outlaw
• John A. Logan (1826–1886), American Civil War general and politician
• John McCauley (1899–1989), senior commander in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF)
• Jack McDowell (born 1966), American Major League Baseball pitcher
• John McEwen (1900–1980), 18th Prime Minister of Australia
• John J. Pershing (1860–1948), United States Army general
• Jean Schramme (1929–1988), Belgian mercenary and planter
• Jack Stewart (ice hockey) (1917–1983), Canadian National Hockey League player

Black Jack or Blackjack was the 2-Cent denomination United States postage stamp issued from July 1, 1863 to 1869, is generally referred to as the "Black Jack" due to the large portraiture of the United States President, Andrew Jackson on its face printed in pitch black.

The stamp was issued to fulfill a need for a reduced rate, 2-Cent denomination for newspaper, magazine, and local deliveries; and was often used to "make up" higher rates, or split in half to make up lower ones (a 1-Cent stamp) due to shortages at the local post office.

During the Civil War, the "Black Jack" was supposed to have been favored by both North and South, but as soon as the South got news of the North making a stamp depicting one of their own heroes, they printed a 2-Cent stamp depicting the same portrait of Jackson on their own 'Red Jack' postage stamp in reaction.

After the War was over, poverty inspired people to wash off the cancellation from the stamps and attempt to use them again. The Government then decided to put an antitheft device onto the stamps known as a grill. This grill, which consisted of various rows of tiny indentations into the stamps, was supposed to make it impossible to wash off the cancellations without being detected; but people usually got around this by bisecting the stamp, and then reusing that portion that didn't have a cancellation on it. The first grill applied to a Black Jack stamp is known as the "Z" grill, introduced in January 1868. Over the next few months, the Post Office successively employed three smaller grill patterns (D, E and F) in the production of this stamp.

is a fictional character created by Osamu Tezuka, introduced in Weekly Shōnen Champion on November 19, 1973.

His odd appearance comes from a childhood incident, in which both he and his mother were terribly injured in an explosion. Although Kurō's mother succumbed to her injuries, and Kurō's own body was nearly torn to shreds, he was rescued, thanks to a miraculous operation by Dr. Honma. Although Kurō survived, part of his hair turned white due to stress and shock. The skin covering the left side of Kurō's face is noticeably darker due to getting a skin graft from his best friend, who is half African. Kurō refused to have plastic surgery to match the skin color as a sign of respect for his friend. Marked by this experience, Kurō decided to become a surgeon himself, taking the name of Black Jack.

Despite his medical genius, Black Jack has chosen not to obtain a surgical license, choosing instead to operate from the shadows, free from rules and the corrupt bureaucratic establishment. Although he usually treats those he meets in chance encounters who have heard of his legendary skills, he occasionally travels to hospitals around the world to covertly assist terminally ill patients.

Black Jack was an Australian Heavy metal/classical band that was active in the 1980/90's.

Black Jack, also known as Captain Blackjack, is a 1950 adventure film written and directed by Julien Duvivier and starring George Sanders, Herbert Marshall, Patricia Roc and Dennis Wyndham. It tells the story of a man who uses his yacht to smuggle drugs tries to go straight, but finds it harder than he had anticipated. The English-language film was a co-production between France, Spain and the United States.

Black Jack is a 1979 period children’s adventure film, directed by Ken Loach and based on the Leon Garfield novel. It is set in Yorkshire in 1750 and follows a young boy, Tolly (Stephen Hirst) and his adventures with a large French man (Jean Franval), the Black Jack of the title, and Belle a young English girl (Louise Cooper). It was awarded the Critics’ Award at the Cannes Film Festival (1979).

Black Jack, also known as John Hilliard House, is a historic plantation house located near Red Oak, Nash County, North Carolina. It was built about 1800, and is a two-story, three bay by two bay, Late Georgian / Federal style frame dwelling with one-story rear additions. It is sheathed in weatherboard and has a gable roof. It features double-shoulder, brick exterior end chimneys.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

The black jack, Caranx lugubris (also known as the black trevally, black kingfish, coal fish and black ulua), is a species of large ocean fish in the jack family Carangidae. The species has a circumtropical distribution, found in oceanic, offshore waters of the tropical zones of the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans. The species is particularly prevalent around offshore islands such as the Caribbean islands in the Atlantic, Hawaii and French Polynesia in the Pacific and the Seychelles and Maldives in the Indian Ocean. Black jack are rare in shallow waters, preferring deep reefs, ledges and seamounts in clear waters. The species is easily distinguished by its black to grey fins and jet black scutes, with the head having a steep profile near the snout. The largest recorded length is 1 m and weight of 17.9 kg. The black jack lives either individually or in small schools, and is known to school with other species. It is a predatory fish, taking a variety of fish, crustaceans and molluscs as prey. Sexual maturity is reached at 34.6 cm in females and 38.2 cm in males, with spawning taking place between February and September in the Caribbean. The early life history of the species is very poorly understood. Black jack are of high importance to many island fisheries, but are rarely encountered in most continental fisheries. The species has a reputation as a gamefish, and is variably considered a terrible or excellent food fish, although several cases of ciguatera poisoning have been attributed to the species. The species was initially named Caranx ascensionis by Georges Cuvier, however several issues with the use of this name have seen Felipe Poey's name Caranx lugubris become the valid scientific name.

Black Jack was a Chilean rock band that formed in Los Ángeles in 2005. Originally known as The Fire, the group was formed by Diego Stegmeier (vocals and drums), Raúl Guarda (guitar) and Sebastian Villagra (bass guitar). A few months later, Villagra left the band and was replaced by Franco Aravena. Aravena went on to play rhythm guitar, and later Rodrigo Pacheco, the new bassist, joined.

Between 2008 and 2009, the band recorded two singles called "Dejar de Pensar" and "Escuchar". In 2010, Guarda left the group to pursue his studies in dentistry, and was replaced by Felipe Gutierrez. That same year they recorded their third single "Realidad" with Gutierrez. The band was tight in 2010 and until today have not done any meeting. In 2012, Stegmeier released his first solo album, entitled Fuera de Foco, which has had very good reception. Then in 2013 Stegmeier launched on September 1 a new solo album called Viento, and this album contains 10 demos recorded in Santiago, Chile. In addition to his solo career is performing many musical projects.

Black Jack is a 1927 American silent Western film directed by Orville O. Dull and written by Harold Shumate. The film stars Buck Jones, Barbara Bennett, Theodore Lorch, George Berrell, Harry Cording and William Caress. The film was released on September 25, 1927, by Fox Film Corporation.