Mark
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As well as being a popular male name,
Mark is the name of several things of interest:
Biblical
\n* Mark the Evangelist - one of the gospel writers of the life of Jesus Christ.\n* Gospel of Mark - the gospel of Mark the Evangelist.
Measurement and Currency
\n* Mark - an archaic European unit of weight whose use for precious metal gave rise to the currencies.\n* Deutsche Mark - the name of the former currency of Germany, now replaced by the Euro.\n* East German Mark (or, Ostmark) - the name of the former currency in German Democratic Republic, replaced by the Deutsche Mark upon that state's unification with the Federal Republic of Germany.\n* Markka/Mark - the name of the former currency in Finland, now replaced by the Euro.\n* Mark - a former unit of account in England.
Geography
\n* Mark, Sweden - a municipality in Sweden.\n* A Mark or "Earldom" - medieval state in Westphalia, part of the Holy Roman Empire.\n* In German, Mark (in English, "Margravate") also denotes a border area of the Holy Roman empire. It was ruled by a markgraf, or "Margrave". Examples are the Altmark, Neumark, and Mark Brandenburg.
Literature and Legend
\n* Mark is a King of Cornwall in Arthurian legend.\n* "The Mark" - colloquial name for the fictional land of Rohan in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. The name was probably taken from the German above.
Slang
\n* A "mark" - the slang term for the victim of a con game.
Technology
\n* Mark (computing) - a delimiter at the beginning or end of a transmission sequence.\n* Mark frequency - in radio transmission; see frequency-shift keying.
