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The Black Swan is a public house in the city centre of York, in England. The building lies on Peasholme Green , on the site of an important Mediaeval house which had been occupied by various Lord Mayors of York and Members of Parliament.
It has existed as a pub since 1738 and has been known as The Black Swan since 1776, although it may have been given this name earlier. [1] However, the pub is more commonly known as The Dirty Duck. [2] [3] It is unclear where this name originates. One reason could be that it was given this name by brewery families who played darts in the pub. [4]
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The Swan is a Grade II listed historic pub, [1] immediately south-west of the city centre of York, in England. It was built as a beer house and grocery in 1861, at the end of a terrace on Bishopgate Street, the northern extension of Bishopthorpe Road. In 1899 it was purchased by the Joshua Tetley's & Son brewery, which in 1936 decided to ...
The old building has been brought back to life in recent years. Now Public House 421 is a coffee shop where a public house was run years ago.
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable is a 2007 book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, who is a former options trader. The book focuses on the extreme impact of rare and unpredictable outlier events—and the human tendency to find simplistic explanations for these events, retrospectively. Taleb calls this the Black Swan theory.