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Saker (cannon), Saker
Saker may refer to: * Saker falcon (''Falco cherrug''), a species of falcon * Saker (cannon), a type of cannon * Saker Baptist College, an all-girls secondary school in Limbe, Cameroon * Grupo Saker-Ti, a Guatemalan writers group formed in 1947 * Changwon LG Sakers, a South Korean basketball team * Saker Cars, a sports car designed in New Zealand * HMS Saker, HMS ''Saker'', a Royal Navy ship * Saker LSV, a British Army light vehicle People * Alan Saker (1921–2001), Australian rules footballer * Alfred Saker (1814–1880), British Christian missionary to West Africa * Annie Saker (1882–1932), English actress * David Saker (born 1966), Australian first-class cricketer * Dora Saker (1888–1926), cheese-maker for Somerset County Council * Edward Saker (1838–1883), British actor-manager * Frank Saker (1907–1980), Canadian flatwater canoeist * Neil Saker (born 1984), English cricketer * Rivka Saker, Israeli philanthropist and art collector * Sardar Saker (1904–1973), Indian fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saker Falcon
The saker falcon (Falco cherrug) is a large falcon species. It breeds from Central Europe eastwards across the Palearctic to Manchuria. It is a partial migrant, which means that some part of the population is migratory, some part is not. In Europe, for example, a part othe juveniles are migrating while adults are mostly resident. The European and West Asian migratory sakers spend the winter in the Sahel region. On migration, they cross the Middle East, the Arabian Peninsula, and Pakistan, where they are exposed to illegal trapping. The migratory birds to the east from Altai Mountains spend the winter in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. The saker falcon is the second fastest bird in level flight after the white-throated needletail swift (unconfirmed), capable of reaching . It is also the third fastest animal in the world overall after the peregrine falcon and the golden eagle, with all three species capable of executing high speed dives known as "stooping", approaching . The saker fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Saker
David James Saker (born 29 May 1966) is an Australian cricket coach and former player who played first-class cricket for Victoria and Tasmania. He has been the fast bowling coach for the England, Australia and Sri Lanka national cricket team. Playing career Saker was born at Melbourne, Victoria in 1966. A right-arm fast-medium bowler, Saker made his first class debut in the 1994–95 season. He spent six years with the Bushrangers before accepting an offer to join the Tasmanian side at the start of the 2000–01 season. As a veteran in a fairly young side he was named as their Player of the Year for 2001–02. Saker was also a handy batsman, making four first class half-centuries, even opening the batting at times for the Bushrangers in limited-overs games. He retired in 2002–03 with 247 wickets to his name at 30.10. Coaching In 2004 he became an assistant coach at Victoria under Greg Shipperd. On 8 April 2010, Saker was appointed as the fast bowling coach of the England cri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sake (other) , a surname
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Sake is a Japanese alcoholic beverage brewed from rice. Sake may also refer to: Places * Sake, Democratic Republic of the Congo, a town in the eastern province of North Kivu * Sake, Rwanda, a town in Rwanda Other uses * Sake, a Japanese word for salmon commonly used in sushi and other Japanese dishes * Sake, meaning sheikh, an honorific title in the Arabic language * Sake language, a Bantu language spoken in Gabon * Sake Dean Mahomed (1759–1851) See also * Saker (other) * Saki (other) * Sakić Sakić ( sr-cyr, Сакић) is a Serbo-Croatian surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Sinan Sakić (born 1956), Serbian folk singer * Nenad Sakić (born 1971), former Serbian footballer See also * * Šakić {{DEFAULTSORT:Sakic S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sardar Saker
Sardar Saker (; 1904–1973) was an Indian director who made several films in Iran. He owned his own film studio in Iran, ''Kuh-e Nur''. He introduced Indian-style film narrative elements into Iranian films. Filmography *1964 – '' A Night in Lalezar Avenue'' *1963 – ''Game for Anything'' *1962 – ''The Shore Is Not Far'' *1961 – ''Ali, the Shoe Shiner'' *1960 – ''Tomorrow Is Bright'' *1958 – ''A Ray of Hope'' *1956 – ('), featuring Mahvash *1954 – ''Morad'' References External links * 1904 births 1973 deaths Indian expatriates in Iran 20th-century Indian people Iranian film directors {{India-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rivka Saker
Rivka Saker () is an art collector. Based in New York and Tel Aviv, she serves as a chairman of the Sotheby's Israel, and the founder and board chair of Artis. In 2004, Saker founded Artis, a non-profit art organization to support Israeli artists and to create opportunities for their exposure abroad. She has helped support projects by Israeli artists including Yael Bartana, Gilad Ratman, Naama Tsabar, and Ariel Schlesinger and more. Saker was born in Tel Aviv, Israel. She earned her bachelor's degree in economics and art history from the University of Haifa. Upon graduation, she attended Haifa's Technion Institute of Technology where she received her Master of Arts degree in Urban Planning. In 1982, Saker joined Sotheby's and established the first Sotheby's office in Israel. In 2006, Saker was appointed chair of Sotheby's Israel. She is also a board member of Sotheby's Europe. Saker serves on the board of various cultural institutions, including the Israel Philharmonic Orche ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Saker
Neil Clifford Saker (born 20 September 1984) is a former English cricketer who played for Surrey. He is a right-hand batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler. In July 2003 Saker made his first-class debut against India A, he scored 5 and bowled 15 wicketless overs. In September of the same season he made his county cricket debut against Essex, his maiden first-class wicket being that of Alastair Cook. At the end of the season he became the first Surrey Academy player to sign a full-time professional contract with the county. After a season in the second team, Saker was used frequently in the first team in 2005 although twelve of his thirteen appearances came in the one-day format. He was given more first-class opportunities in 2006 and 2007 playing a total of 15 matches, taking 29 wickets at an average of 45.03. After playing a single one-day match in 2008 he was released at the end of the season. During the 2010 Clydesdale Bank 40 domestic limited overs competition, Saker was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Saker
Frank Warren Saker (August 10, 1907 in Toronto – April 6, 1980) was a Canadian flatwater canoeist who competed in the 1930s. At the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin Berlin ( ; ) is the Capital of Germany, capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and List of cities in Germany by population, population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the List of cities in the European Union by population withi ..., he won two medals with Harvey Charters with a silver in the C-2 10000 m and a bronze in the C-2 1000 m events. External links * * 1907 births 1980 deaths Canoeists from Toronto Canadian male canoeists Canoeists at the 1936 Summer Olympics Olympic canoeists for Canada Olympic silver medalists for Canada Olympic bronze medalists for Canada Olympic medalists in canoeing Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics 20th-century Canadian sportsmen {{canada-canoe-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Saker
Edward Sloman Saker (30 September 1838 – 29 March 1883) was a British actor-manager. He was assisted in all things by his wife Emily Saker. Life Saker was born in Bethnal Green in London, son of William Saker, a well-known low comedian at London minor theatres and later a tobacconist and news-vendor. Edward's elder brother Horatio Saker (1824–1861) also became an actor. He was placed with a firm of architects, but early showed a strong taste for a theatrical career, which he adopted when about twenty-five years of age. In 1857 he joined a theatre company in Edinburgh, then under the management of Robert Henry Wyndham, his brother-in-law. He learnt his profession here, and soon became a useful member of the company; he was also treasurer of the company for several years. He made a tour in Scotland with Henry Irving, when the latter played Robert Macaire (in Charles Selby's play of that name) to Saker's Jacques Strop. With Lionel Brough he also gave an entertainment, und ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dora Saker
Dora Glover Saker (1888 – 1 July 1926) was an instructor in cheese-making for Somerset County Council. The rediscovery of her book, ''Practical Cheddar Cheese-making'' (1917), by cheese-makers in the twenty-first century has been credited with inspiring a revival of interest in historic cheese-making methods and to have "quickly acquired cult status amongst farmhouse cheese-makers". Early life Dora Saker was born in Redhill, Surrey, England, in 1888, to Richard Webb Saker, a solicitor's clerk, and his wife Hannah C. Saker. She had two sisters and two brothers. Career Bronwen Percival and Randolph Hodgson describe Saker as working during a period when methods of dairy production were becoming more scientific with farmers, colleges and instructors co-operating to ensure that local cheese producers were able to make a consistently high-quality product. In 1908 Saker passed the examinations of the National Agricultural Examination Board and was awarded the National Diploma in Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Saker
Annie Saker (13 March 1882 – 8 October 1932) was an English actor. Annie Elizabeth Laura Mortimer was born in Edinburgh, daughter of Maria Saker (an actor) and granddaughter of Horatio Saker. Her debut on the stage was at age eleven in Herbert Beerbohm Tree's production of G. Stuart Ogilvie's ''Hypatia'' at the Haymarket Theatre in 1893. She later appeared under the management of Charles Wyndham in '' Under the Red Robe''. After a tour playing in comedies of the period such as ''Pink Dominoes'', ''Betsy'', and ''The Great Divorce Case'', Saker became established as a leading lady of melodrama. Among the plays she starred in were '' The Prince and the Beggar Maid'' (1910), ''The Soldier Princess'', and ''The Silver Crucifix''. Saker appeared in at least one film, ''The Lifeguardsman'', directed by Frank G Bayley (1916). In 1927-29 she toured Australia with Dion Boucicault and Irene Vanbrugh, appearing in pieces such as ''Caroline'', ''The Letter'', and ''The Notorious Mrs. E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saker (cannon)
The saker was a medium cannon, slightly smaller than a culverin, developed during the early 16th century and often used by the English. It was named after the saker falcon, a large falconry bird native to the Middle East. A saker's barrel was approximately long, had a caliber, calibre of , and weighed approximately . It could fire List of cannon projectiles, round shot weighing approximately using of black powder. The shot was intended to bounce along the ground to cause as much damage as possible, the explosive shell (projectile), shell being rare before the 19th century. Tests performed in France during the 1950s show that a saker's range was over when fired at a 45-degree angle. Henry VIII of England, Henry VIII amassed a Inventory of Henry VIII of England, large arsenal of sakers in the early 16th century as he expanded the Royal Navy and came into conflict with France. Henry's foundries used so much bronze that there was a world shortage of tin. According to the inve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Saker
Alfred Saker (21 July 1814 in Wrotham, Kent – 12 March 1880 in Peckham) was a British people, British Baptist missionary of the Baptist Missionary Society. In 1858 he led a Baptist Mission that relocated from the then Spanish island of Fernando Po and landed in Southern Cameroons. According to the record, he bought land from indigenous Bimbia chiefs, established a seaside settlement christened Victoria after the reigning British Empress. The settlement was renamed Limbe by decree in 1982 by President Ahmadou Ahidjo of Cameroon. Alfred Saker wished to be known under no other designation than a "Missionary to Africa". He was a leader of the early BMS World Mission, British Baptist missionaries that established churches on Fernando Po Island and Cameroon. His 1844-1876 mission work included translation - between 1862 and 1872 - of the Bible into the Duala language. Biography Early life and consecration (1841 - 1842) Birthplace – Childhood – Youth Alfred Saker was born on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
