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Sayles is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Bill Sayles (1917–1996), American baseball player *Charlie Sayles (born 1948), American Chicago blues harmonicist, singer and songwriter *Emanuel Sayles (1907–1986), American musician *G. O. Sayles (1901–1994), English historian *George Sayles (1899–1971), English professional footballer and cricketer *Irving Sayles (1872–1914), American entertainer *John Sayles John Thomas Sayles (born September 28, 1950) is an American independent film director, screenwriter, editor, actor, and novelist. He has twice been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, for ''Passion Fish'' (1992) and '' ... (born 1950), American director {{surname, Sayles English-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic ( Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Sayles
William Nisbeth Sayles (July 27, 1917 – November 20, 1996) was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played with the Boston Red Sox in the 1939 season, and for the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers in 1943. Born in Portland, Oregon, he also pitched in the 1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics ( German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad ( German: ''Spiele der XI. Olympiade'') and commonly known as Berlin 1936 or the Nazi Olympics, were an international multi- ... as part of the "World Champions" team. Sayles died at age 79 in Lincoln City, Oregon. References External links , oBaseball Almanac!--, oSports Illustrated/CNN--> * 1917 births 1996 deaths Asheville Tourists managers Asheville Tourists players Baseball players at the 1936 Summer Olympics Baseball players from Portland, Oregon Brooklyn Dodgers players Boston Red Sox players Little Rock Travelers players Louisville C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Sayles
Charles Warner Sayles (born January 4, 1948) is an American Chicago blues harmonicist, singer and songwriter. At various times, Sayles has played alongside Pete Seeger, Bobby Parker, Deborah Coleman, and Bill Monroe. He has had three albums issued on JSP Records. His most recent release was ''Charlie Sayles and the Blues Disciples'' (2015). Life and career He was born in Woburn, Massachusetts. From a broken home, Sayles spent his childhood moving from one foster home to another. In the late 1960s, he enlisted in the Army, was posted to the 101st Airborne Division, and sent to fight in the Vietnam War. Whilst serving, Sayles heard a fellow soldier play the harmonica, and later listened to a B.B. King record on the radio. Both experiences ignited his interest and, after his tour of duty in Vietnam ended, he served his final six months in Germany. He bought some Hohner harmonicas at that time and, in 1971, took them back to the United States on his discharge from military servic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emanuel Sayles
Emanuel Sayles (January 31, 1907 – October 5, 1986) was an American jazz banjoist chiefly active in the New Orleans jazz scene. Biography Sayles was born in Donaldsonville, Louisiana and played violin and viola as a child, then taught himself banjo and guitar. He was raised Catholic. He went to high school in Pensacola, Florida, then relocated to New Orleans and played with William Ridgely's Tuxedo Orchestra. Following this he worked with Fate Marable, Armand Piron, and Sidney Desvigne on riverboats up and down the Mississippi River. In 1929 he participated in recordings with the Jones-Collins Astoria Hot Eight. Sayles moved to Chicago in 1933, where he led his own group and worked often as an accompanist on blues and jazz recordings with Roosevelt Sykes and others. He returned to New Orleans in 1949, playing with George Lewis (with whom he toured Japan in 1963–64) and Sweet Emma Barrett. He played with Punch Miller in Cleveland in 1960, then played again in Chicago i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Sayles
George Sayles (26 March 1899 – June 1971) was an English professional footballer who played as a full back in the Football League for Reading, in non-League football for York City was on the books of Cardiff City without making a league appearance. He also played minor counties cricket for Berkshire from 1928 to 1949, making a total of 76 appearances in the Minor Counties Championship The NCCA 3 Day Championship (previously the Minor Counties Cricket Championship) is a season-long competition in England and Wales that is contested by the members of the National Counties Cricket Association (NCCA), the so-called national cou .... References 1899 births Cricketers from Sheffield 1971 deaths English men's footballers Men's association football fullbacks Cardiff City F.C. players Reading F.C. players York City F.C. players English Football League players Midland Football League players English cricketers Berkshire cricketers {{England-footy-defender-189 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irving Sayles
Irving Sayles (1872 – 8 February 1914) was an African-American vaudeville entertainer. He spent much of his life in Australia as a popular minstrel show performer, touring the Tivoli circuit. He performed coon songs and employed a self-deprecating humor involving comic interpretations of plantation slavery that reinforced negative racial stereotypes. Early years and work in Australia Irving Sayles was born in Quincy, Illinois, to Melinda (''née'' Wilson) and Josephus Sayles. He reported his year of birth as 1872. He became a member of Haverly's United Mastodon Minstrels at a young age. In 1888 he traveled to Australia as part of the Hicks-Sawyer Minstrels, the second company that minstrelsy manager Charles Hicks brought to Australia. That September, the group played the Opera House in Sydney, where Sayles performed a solo piece and played the tambourine. Following a leg in Tasmania, Hicks wrote in 1890 that Sayles was the hit of their trip, saying that " s song, 'Father of a Litt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Sayles
John Thomas Sayles (born September 28, 1950) is an American independent film director, screenwriter, editor, actor, and novelist. He has twice been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, for ''Passion Fish'' (1992) and '' Lone Star'' (1996). His film ''Men with Guns'' (1997) was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film. His directorial debut, ''Return of the Secaucus 7'' (1980), has been added to the National Film Registry. Early life Sayles was born on September 28, 1950, in Schenectady, New York, the son of Mary ( ''née'' Rausch), a teacher, and Donald John Sayles, a school administrator. Both of Sayles's parents were Catholic and of half-Irish descent. Sayles has referred to himself as a "Catholic atheist". He attended Williams College with frequent collaborators Gordon Clapp and David Strathairn, as well as his longtime partner, Maggie Renzi. Sayles earned a B.A. in psychology in 1972. Career After college, Sayles moved to Boston ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
