Lark (disambiguation)

Lark, The Lark, Larks or The Larks may also refer to:

A lark is a small terrestrial bird.

Geography

Lark, Utah, United States, a ghost town
Lark, Wisconsin, United States, an unincorporated community
Lark Street, Albany, New York, United States
River Lark, a river in England
Lark Lane, Liverpool, England
Lark Wood, a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, England
Lark or Larak Island, in the Persian Gulf off the coast of Iran

Arts and entertainment

Music

The Larks, an influential American vocal group active in the 1950s
Lark (band), an electronica band from South Africa
"The Lark", nickname given to String Quartet No. 53 in D major, Op. 64, No. 5, by Joseph Haydn
"The Lark", composed by Mikhail Glinka
"The Lark" or "Ciocârlia", composed by Angheluş Dinicu
Lark (album), a 1972 album by Linda Lewis

Films

The Lark (1964 film), a Soviet film
The Lark (2007 film), a British film

Fictional characters

Miss Lark, a recurring character in the Mary Poppins book series
Lady Lark, a Marvel Comics character
Lark, from the PlayStation 2 game Devil Kings
Lark, from the Nintendo 64 game Pilotwings 64

Plays

The Lark (play), a 1952 play about Joan of Arc by Jean Anouilh

In the military

HMS Lark, sixteen Royal Navy ships
Hired armed lugger Lark, used by the Royal Navy from 1799 to 1801
USS Lark, two US Navy ships
CSS Lark, a Confederate paddle steamer and blockade runner during the American Civil War
SAM-N-2 Lark, an early U.S. Navy anti-aircraft missile
Lark (Norwegian resistance), a Second World War group sent into German-occupied Norway to prepare for a possible Allied invasion

Transportation

Studebaker Lark, a compact car built by Studebaker in the 1950s and early 1960s
Lark (passenger train), a passenger train operated by the Southern Pacific Railroad
Lark, a South Devon Railway 0-4-0 steam locomotive
Curtiss Model 41 Lark, a commercial biplane introduced in 1925
Keleher Lark, a single-seat aerobatic sport aircraft designed in the early 1960s
Lark (dinghy), a two-person racing dinghy
MV Larks, a former name of the ferry MV Lucky Star (1976)

Sports

Denver Larks, a former name of the Denver Nuggets National Basketball Association team
Larks, a nickname for the Montreal Alouettes Canadian Football League team
Hays Larks, a collegiate summer baseball team in Hays, Kansas
Jersey Larks, a professional ice hockey team which played in the Eastern Hockey League during the 1960-61 season
Oakland Larks, a baseball team in the West Coast Negro Baseball League in 1946
Mynavi ABC Championship, a Japan Golf Tour event called the ABC Lark Cup (1988-1991) and the Lark Cup (1992-1993)

People

Lark (name), a list of people with either the surname or given name
Lark (person), someone who prefers to get up early in the morning and go to bed in the early evening
Sarah Lark, a pen name of German author Christiane Gohl (born 1958)
Lark O'Neal, a pen name of American novelist Barbara O'Neal (fl. 1990-present)
K. Gordon Lark, American biologist

Other uses

Lark (cigarette), a brand of cigarette made by Philip Morris
Lark Theater, a single-screen Art Deco cinema in Larkspur, California, United States
Lark Hotels, an American hotel management and development company
Lark, an XML syntax analyzer written by Tim Bray
Colloquial for a larrikin act

gollark: Apparently back in the Windows XP days, you had to install service packs very fast or your computer would be overrun with worms when it was connected to the internet.

gollark: I too love ancient and wildly insecure systems?

gollark: Also more resilient against, say, being dropped.

gollark: SSDs are much faster than HDDs, thus fast boot times.

gollark: So 2.5" disks?