Fisk

Fisk

Fisk can mean:

a verb, "to fisk" means to criticise an essay or argument in extreme detail, named after Robert Fisk
*C.B. Fisk, Inc., a manufacturer of pipe organs based out of Gloucester, Massachusetts.
*FisK (capitalized thus), a text adventure computer game developed at Stanford University in the early 1980s.Fisk is also Norwegian, Swedish and Danish for fish.

People

*Carlton Fisk, Major League Baseball player
*Eliot Fisk, classical guitarist
*James Fisk (1834-1872) - financier and speculator who led to Black Friday
*Jack Fisk - art director
*Jason Fisk - National Football League player
*Nicholas Fisk, pseudonym of David Higginbottom, science fiction author
*Robert Fisk, British journalist and author
*Schuyler Fisk, American actress, daughter of Sissy Spacek
*Steve Fisk, American audio engineer, record producer and musician.
*Wilbur Fisk, Methodist theologian
*Zachary Fisk, American condensed matter physicist
*Herbert Fisk "Fisk" Johnson III, CEO and Chairman of S. C. Johnson & Son
* Fisk, pseudonym of Carson Gardiner, music producer

Places

*Fisk, Missouri
*Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee

Fictional characters

*Fisk Black, the main character from the "Better Days" webcomic
*Jack Fisk (Battlestar Galactica)
*Richard Fisk, an anti-hero from the Marvel Universe
*Wilson Fisk, a supervillain from the Marvel Universe

ee also

*Fiske


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  • Fisk — ist der Familienname folgender Personen: Carlton Fisk (* 1947), US amerikanischer Baseballspieler Eliot Fisk (* 1958), US amerikanischer klassischer Gitarrist James Fisk (Senator) (1763–1844), US amerikanischer Politiker James Fisk (Unternehmer)… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Fisk — Fisk, MO U.S. city in Missouri Population (2000): 363 Housing Units (2000): 189 Land area (2000): 0.330064 sq. miles (0.854861 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.330064 sq. miles (0.854861 sq. km) …   StarDict's U.S. Gazetteer Places

  • Fisk, MO — U.S. city in Missouri Population (2000): 363 Housing Units (2000): 189 Land area (2000): 0.330064 sq. miles (0.854861 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.330064 sq. miles (0.854861 sq. km) FIPS… …   StarDict's U.S. Gazetteer Places

  • fisk — sb., en, fisk, ene, i sms. fiske , fx fiskeeksport, fiskesuppe; gå i fisk …   Dansk ordbog

  • Fisk — Fisk, v. i. [Cf. Sw. fjeska to bustle about.] To run about; to frisk; to whisk. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] He fisks abroad, and stirreth up erroneous opinions. Latimer. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • FISK — University, Illinois (USA, http://www.fisk.edu/ …   Acronyms

  • FISK — University, Illinois (USA, http://www.fisk.edu/ …   Acronyms von A bis Z

  • fisk — (v.) 2002, an Internet argument tactic involving a reprinting of an article or blog post, interlarded with rebuttals and refutations, often intended to show the original is a sandpile of flawed facts, unfounded assertions, and logical fallacies.… …   Etymology dictionary

  • fisk — fisk; lu·te·fisk; …   English syllables

  • Fisk — (Fisch), Rechnungsmünze auf Island, gesetzmäßig 444 F. = 1 köln. feine Mark, 1 F. = 11,351 Pf. pr. Crt., im gewöhnlichen Geschäftsverkehr nur halb soviel, also 1 F. = 5,676 Pf. pr. Crt …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

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