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Mark

Mark the Evangelist - one of the gospel writers of the life of Jesus Christ.

• Gospel of Mark - the gospel of Mark the Evangelist.

Measurement and Currency

• Mark - an archaic European unit of weight whose use for precious metal gave rise to the currencies.
• Deutsche Mark - the name of the former currency of Germany, now replaced by the Euro.
• 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.
• Markka/Mark - the name of the former currency in Finland, now replaced by the Euro.
• Mark - a former unit of account in England.

Geography

• Mark Municipality - a municipality in Sweden.
• Mark Hundred - a hundred in Westrogorhia, Sweden
• A Mark or "Earldom" - medieval state in Westphalia, part of the Holy Roman Empire.
• 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

• Mark is a King of Cornwall in Arthurian legend.
• "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

• A "mark" - the slang term for the victim of a con game.

Technology

• Mark (computing) - a delimiter at the beginning or end of a transmission sequence.
• Mark frequency - in radio transmission; see frequency-shift keying.

Sport

Football

• To mark in Association Football (or soccer) is to have a player follow an opposing striker or other prominent player, and attempt to prevent them getting control of the ball and/or scoring.

• A mark in Australian Rules Football is a "clean" catch from a kick by another player, from either team. For a mark to be paid the ball must not have touched the ground or another player. A player taking a mark is entitled to a free kick, from behind the point at which the ball was caught.

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