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Stoker (other)
Stoker may refer to: Arts and entertainment * "The Stoker", a 1927 short story by Franz Kafka * The Stoker (1932 film), ''The Stoker'' (1932 film), an American drama/romance film directed by Chester M. Franklin * The Stoker (1935 film), ''The Stoker'' (1935 film), a British comedy film directed by Leslie Pearce * ''A Stoker'', a 2010 Russian crime film * Stoker (film), ''Stoker'' (film), a 2013 American psychological thriller film directed by Park Chan-wook * Stoker (Sliders), "Stoker" (''Sliders''), a television episode * The title character of ''Stoker the Broker'' (1960–1985) a US comic strip * Bram Stoker Award for horror writing * Stoker (band), a South African hard rock band People * Stoker (surname), a list of notable people with the surname ** Bram Stoker (1847-1912), Irish author, wrote ''Dracula'' * Walter Stoker Edwards (1900-1964), British politician * Andy "Stoker" Growcott (born 1959), a former member of the band Dexys Midnight Runners * Stoker (occupation), the per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Stoker
"The Stoker" (original German: "Der Heizer") is a short story by Franz Kafka. Kafka wrote it as the first chapter of a novel that Max Brod titled '' Amerika'' and that has subsequently been translated as ''The Man Who Disappeared (Amerika)'' and as ''Amerika: The Missing Person'', but Kafka abandoned the novel in 1913 and published the one completed chapter alone as a pamphlet later that year. Since his death, it has usually been published along with the uncompleted fragments of ''Amerika''. Plot Sixteen-year-old Karl Rossmann arrives in New York Harbor on a slow-moving ship. He has been sent to America by his parents "because a maid had seduced him and then had his child." As he is about to go ashore, he remembers that he has left his umbrella below deck, so he asks a young man with whom he had been briefly acquainted during the voyage to watch his trunk while he runs to get it. Karl gets lost in the corridors and begins pounding on a door. A man lets him in and, since the man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bram Stoker
Abraham Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912), better known by his pen name Bram Stoker, was an Irish novelist who wrote the 1897 Gothic horror novel ''Dracula''. The book is widely considered a milestone in Vampire fiction, and one of the most famous classics of English literature. The primary antagonist of the novel, Count Dracula, is often ranked among the most iconic and best-known fictional figures of the entire Victorian era, and the character's popularity has led to over 700 adaptations for films, movies, plays, comics, video games, cartoons, stage performances, and other forms of media. Although he was the author of 12 mystery novels and novellas, Stoker's reputation as one of the most influential writers of Gothic horror fiction lies solely with ''Dracula''. During his life, he was better known as the personal assistant of the actor Sir Henry Irving and business manager of the West End's Lyceum Theatre, which Irving owned. Stoker was also a distant relative o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cleveland Stokers
The Cleveland Stokers were a soccer team based in Cleveland, Ohio that played in the United Soccer Association during 1967 and the North American Soccer League in 1968. Their home field was Cleveland Stadium. History United Soccer Association In 1966 a group of United States and Canadian sports entrepreneurs, led by Jack Kent Cooke, formed the United Soccer Association with the intention of organizing a professional soccer league. The USA originally intended to launch its league in the spring of 1968. However a rival league, the National Professional Soccer League, announced it was ready to launch in 1967. Not wanting to lose ground to its rival, the USA decided to fast track its launch. Without any players of its own, it opted to import whole teams from Europe and South America. It was intended that these teams would represent the franchises during the inaugural season, giving them time to build their own squads for the following season. Stoke City, who played in the Football ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mechanical Stoker
A mechanical stoker is a mechanical system that feeds solid fuel like coal, coke or anthracite into the furnace of a steam boiler. They are common on steam locomotives after 1900 and are also used on ships and power stations. Known now as a spreader stoker they remain in use today especially in furnaces fueled by wood pellets or refuse. There are three types: the over feed, the under feed and the cross feed. The over feed delivers coal on to the top of the coals already in the furnace in the manner of a human working a shovel. The under feeder pushes fresh coal into the bottom of the furnace and then advances it upwards so that it mixes with the burning coal above. The mechanical means used are, depending on design, combinations of the screw feed, the conveyor belt, the bucket chain, the paddle and the ram. Steam jets from the boiler or a mechanical catapult may also be used to throw coal into the far reaches of the furnace. Use in steam locomotives The confined working co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fire Iron
A fire iron is any metal instrument for tending a fire. Types There are three types of tools commonly used to tend a small fire, such as an indoor fireplace fire or yule log: the spade, the tongs and the poker itself. These tools make it possible to handle a fire without risk of burns or blisters. A fireplace poker (also known as a fire iron) is a short, rigid rod made of fireproof material used to adjust coal and wood fuel burning in a fireplace, and can be used to stir up a fire. A fireplace poker is usually metal and has a point at one end for pushing burning materials (or a hook for pulling/raking, or a combination) and a handle at the opposite end, sometimes with an insulated grip. Iron is the most popular metal from which the pokers are wrought. Brass is a more expensive alternative for a home poker set. A slice bar has a flatter tip and can be used to stir up the fire or to clear the grates of ashes. Other fire irons include the fire rake (not to be confused with t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tandem Bicycle
A tandem bicycle or twin is a bicycle (occasionally a tricycle) designed to be ridden by more than one person. The term tandem refers to the seating arrangement (fore to aft, not side by side), not the number of riders. Patents related to tandem bicycles date from the mid-1880s. Tandems can reach higher speeds than the same riders on single bicycles, and tandem bicycle racing exists. As with bicycles for single riders, there are many variations that have been developed over the years. Terminology The term tandem refers to the seating arrangement (fore to aft, not side by side), not the number of riders. A bike with two riders side by side is called a sociable. Tandem bicycles are sometimes called "Daisy Bells". This is in reference to " Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two)" which is a popular song, written in 1892 by British songwriter Harry Dacre, with the well-known chorus, "Daisy, Daisy / Give me your answer, do. / I'm half crazy / all for the love of you", ending with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stoker (occupation)
A fireman, stoker or boilerman is a person who tends the fire for the running of a boiler, heating a building, or powering a steam engine. Much of the job is hard physical labor, such as shoveling fuel, typically coal, into the boiler's firebox. On steam locomotives, the title ''fireman'' is usually used, while on steamships and stationary steam engines, such as those driving saw mills, the title is usually ''stoker'' (although the British Merchant Navy did use ''fireman''). The German word ''Heizer'' is equivalent and in Dutch the word ''stoker'' is mostly used too. The United States Navy referred to them as ''watertenders''. Nautical Royal Navy The Royal Navy used the rank structure stoker 2nd class, stoker 1st Class, leading stoker, stoker petty officer and chief stoker. The non-substantive (trade) badge for stokers was a ship's propeller. "Stoker" remains the colloquial term for a marine engineering rating, despite the decommissioning of the last coal-fired naval v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy "Stoker" Growcott
Andrew Growcott (a.k.a. Stoker) is a former member of the pop rock band Dexys Midnight Runners. After the Dexys broke up, he and another bandmate, Mickey Billingham, joined new wave band General Public. Growcott also played with Stephen Tin Tin Duffy in the early 1980s. He has since transitioned into a career as an audio engineer, working on albums such as Ice Cube's ''Death Certificate'' (1991). In 1997, he released a studio album under his stage name, Stoker, called ''Syncopate'' on Knitting Factory's Knit Classics label that contained modern covers of jazz compositions by Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Lee Morgan, Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis, Yusef Lateef, Duke Pearson, Reuben Wilson, et al. The album featured several instrumentalists including David Longoria on trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz musical ensemble, ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest Register (music), register in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stoker Edwards
Walter James Edwards (1900 – 15 October 1964), known as Stoker Edwards or Wally Edwards, was a British Labour Party politician. Edwards was born in Whitechapel, in the East End of London. He briefly worked as a carman from 1917 and in 1918 enlisted in the Royal Navy as a stoker and served until 1923. He then became a docker. He joined the Labour Party and the Transport and General Workers' Union and in 1937 was appointed a full-time officer with the union's Docks Group. From 1935 to 1939 he was chairman of the Whitechapel Labour Party. In the Second World War he was recalled as a Naval reservist and rose to the rate of Leading Stoker. In 1942 he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Whitechapel and St Georges, the first serving Royal Navy rating to be elected to Parliament. Following boundary changes in 1950, he was elected for the new Stepney constituency and served until his retirement in 1964. He served as Civil Lord of the Admiralty from 1945 to 1951. A dev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stoker (surname)
Stoker is a surname. Those bearing it include: * Amanda Stoker (born 1982), Australian politician * Austin Stoker (1930–2022), Trinidadian-American actor *Bob Stoker, Northern Ireland politician, Lord Mayor of Belfast (1999–2000) *Bram Stoker (1847–1912), Irish writer * Charlotte Stoker (1818-1901), activist and mother of Bram Stoker * Don Stoker (1922–1985), English football player and manager * Donald Stoker (historian), American military historian * Frank Stoker (1867–1939), Irish tennis and rugby union player * Gareth Stoker (born 1973), English footballer * Gerry Stoker (born 1955), British political scientist *Gordon Stoker, pianist and singer with The Jordanaires * Hendrik G. Stoker (1899–1993), South African Calvinist philosopher *Henry Hugh Gordon Stoker (1885–1966), Irish Royal Navy officer and actor also known as Dacre Stoker * James J. Stoker (1905–1992), American mathematician * Joanne Stoker (born 1983/84), British footwear designer *Joscelyn Eve Stoker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Stoker (1932 Film)
''The Stoker'' is a 1932 American film directed by Chester M. Franklin. Plot summary A man whose wife has deserted him winds up saving a beautiful girl from the clutches of a murderous bandit on a Nicaraguan coffee plantation. Cast *Monte Blue as Dick Martin *Dorothy Burgess as Margarita Valdez *Noah Beery as Santini * Natalie Moorhead as Vera Martin *Richard Tucker as Alan Ballard *Clarence Geldart Clarence Geldart (June 9, 1867 – May 13, 1935) was an American film actor. He appeared in 127 films between 1915 and 1936. He was sometimes credited as C.H. Geldart or Charles H. Geldart. He was born in New Brunswick, Canada, and died i ... as Senor Valdez * Charles Stevens as Ernesto * Harry J. Vejar as Jailer * Chris-Pin Martin as Chief of Police References External links * * 1932 films 1932 drama films American drama films American black-and-white films Films with screenplays by F. Hugh Herbert 1930s English-language films Films directed by Cheste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stoker (band)
Stoker (or stylised as ⚡toker) is a hard rock band from Cape Town consisting of two sets of brothers from two rural country towns in the Western Cape. The current lineup was established in 2013 when Redge (lead guitar) and Morgan O'Kennedy (drums) joined Chris (vocals, rhythm guitar) and Jurgen Bornman (bass), the latter two having originally started as a three-piece with drummer Joe Theron. While establishing themselves on the local live scene over the next year, the band recorded their debut EP, ''Fox in a Hole'', in 2014. After several single releases during 2016, they released their eponymous full-length album in early 2017 to local critical acclaim. History The band formed in 2011 as a three-piece rock outfit consisting of the Bornman brothers (originally from Rawsonville) and drummer Joe Theron from the band Woodstock Mafia, releasing the single "Stuck in the Alcohol". During this time they played as many shows as they possibly could, regardless of whether they were p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
