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Snark
Snark may refer to: Fictional creatures * Snark (Lewis Carroll), a fictional animal species in Lewis Carroll's ''The Hunting of the Snark'' (1876) * Zn'rx, a race of fictional aliens in Marvel Comics publications, commonly referred to as "Snarks" * Corporal Snark, a minor character in ''Catch-22'' (1961) by Joseph Heller * A species of creature in ''The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage'' * The Snark, fictional alien machine that visits Earth in the novel ''In the Ocean of Night'' (1977) by Gregory Benford * A fictional creature from the TV series ''The Troop'' * A fictional creature from the book series ''A Song of Ice and Fire'', fictional even in the fictional world * An beetle-like creature from ''Half-Life'' which doubles as a biological weapon. Aircraft and missiles * SM-62 ''Snark'', an American intercontinental nuclear cruise missile * Sopwith Snark, a British experimental fighter plane * Barber Snark, a New Zealand kit-built tandem-seater light aircraft Ships * ''Sna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snark (graph Theory)
In the mathematical field of graph theory, a snark is an undirected graph with exactly three edges per vertex whose edges cannot be colored with only three colors. In order to avoid trivial cases, snarks are often restricted to have additional requirements on their connectivity and on the length of their cycles. Infinitely many snarks exist. One of the equivalent forms of the four color theorem is that every snark is a non-planar graph. Research on snarks originated in Peter G. Tait's work on the four color theorem in 1880, but their name is much newer, given to them by Martin Gardner in 1976. Beyond coloring, snarks also have connections to other hard problems in graph theory: writing in the ''Electronic Journal of Combinatorics'', Miroslav Chladný and Martin Škoviera state that As well as the problems they mention, W. T. Tutte's ''snark conjecture'' concerns the existence of Petersen graphs as graph minors of snarks; its proof has been long announced but remains unp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snark (Lewis Carroll)
The Snark is a fictional animal species created by Lewis Carroll. This creature appears in his nonsense poem ''The Hunting of the Snark.'' His descriptions of the creatures were, in his own words, unimaginable, and he wanted that to remain so.''The Annotated Snark'', edited by Martin Gardner, Penguin Books, 1974 The origin of the poem According to Carroll, the initial inspiration to write the poem – which he called an ''agony in eight fits'' – was the final line, ''For the snark was a boojum, you see''. Carroll was asked repeatedly to explain the snark. In all cases, his answer was he did not know and could not explain. Later commentators have offered many analyses of the work. One such likens the contemporary Commissioners in Lunacy individually to the ten hunters, noting that Carroll's favourite uncle, Skeffington Lutwidge, himself a member of the commission had, like the poem's Baker, met his end in a "chasm"—Lutwidge was murdered by an asylum inmate called McKave. D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SM-62 Snark
The Northrop SM-62 Snark is an early-model intercontinental range ground-launched cruise missile that could carry a W39 thermonuclear warhead. The Snark was deployed by the United States Air Force's Strategic Air Command from 1958 through 1961. It represented an important step in weapons technology during the Cold War. The Snark was named by Jack Northrop and took its name from the author Lewis Carroll's character the "snark". ‘’From Snark to Peacekeeper. Office of the Historian, Strategic Air Command, Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska (1990). The Snark was the only surface-to-surface cruise missile with such a long range that was ever deployed by the U.S. Air Force. Following the deployment of ICBMs, the Snark was rendered obsolete, and it was removed from deployment in 1961. Design and Development Project Mastiff, to create a missile for delivery for an atom bomb began immediately after the existence of the atomic bomb was revealed. Due to protracted security concerns o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cruise Of The Snark
''The Cruise of the Snark'' (1911) is a non-fictional, illustrated book by Jack London chronicling his sailing adventure in 1907 across the south Pacific in his ketch the ''Snark''. Accompanying London on this voyage was his wife Charmian London and a small crew. London taught himself celestial navigation and the basics of sailing and of boats during the course of this adventure and describes these details to the reader. He visits exotic locations including the Solomon Islands and Hawaii, and his first-person accounts and photographs provide insight into these remote places at the beginning of the 20th century. About the ''Snark'' In 1906, Jack London began to build a 45-foot yacht on which he planned a round-the-world voyage, to last seven years. The ''Snark'' was named after Lewis Carroll's 1876 poem '' The Hunting of the Snark''. She had two masts and was 45 feet long at the waterline and 55 feet on deck, and London claimed to have spent thirty thousand dollars on he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snark Sailboat
The Snark is a lightweight, two-person, lateen-rigged sailboat manufactured and marketed by Meyers Boat Company of Adrian, Michigan. The Snark was initially marketed by Snark Products, Inc. of Fort Lee, New Jersey and has been marketed with numerous slight variations, most prominently as the Sea Snark, Super Snark and Super Sea Snark. The sailboat was marketed heavily in numerous co-branding campaigns. ''The New York Times'' reported that the Sea Snark outsold all other sailboats in 1970 and that over 48,000 Sea Snarks were sold in an 18-month period in 1971 via a mail order campaign with Kool Cigarettes. By 1973, over 200,000 Sea Snarks had been sold and ''The New York Times'' reported that by 1976 that Snark had built more sailboats than any other manufacturer. The manufacturer currently estimates that nearly a half million Sea Snarks have been manufactured since 1958. Noted for its 11' expanded polystyrene hull and marketed as "unsinkable", a 1971 ''Popular Science'' reviewe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MV The Second Snark MV ''The Second Snark'' is a small passenger ferry, built in 1938 by William Denny of Dumbarton, later operated by Clyde Marine Services on the Firth of Clyde, Scotland. History MV ''The Second Snark'' was built in 1938 by William Denny for use in their Dumbarton shipyard as a tug and tender, replacing their previous steam driven vessel ''The Snark''. The company went into liquidation in 1963, an |
