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Straker
Straker is a surname. The surname of Straker was derived from the Old English word 'stracian' an occupational name 'the striker'. Occupational surnames refer directly to the particular trade or occupation followed by the first bearer of the name. The surname Straker was first found in Lancashire where they held a family seat as Lords of the Manor. The Saxon influence of English history diminished after the Battle of Hastings in 1066. The language of the courts was French for the next three centuries and the Norman ambience prevailed. But Saxon surnames survived and the family name was first referenced in the year 1246 when Robert Straker held lands. Notable people with the surname include: * Anthony Straker, English-born Grenadian footballer * Arthur Straker, English first-class cricket player * D. Augustus Straker, Barbados-born lawyer and jurist, first black lawyer to appear before the Michigan Supreme Court * Granville Straker, American music businessman and record producer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UFO (TV Series)
''UFO'' is a 1970 British science fiction television series about the covert efforts of a government defence organisation to prevent an alien invasion of Earth. It was created by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson with Reg Hill, and produced by the Andersons and Lew Grade's Century 21 for Grade's ITC Entertainment company. A single series of 26 episodes (including the pilot) was filmed over the course of more than a year; a five-month production break was caused by the closure of MGM-British Studios in Borehamwood, where the show was initially made. Production then moved to Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire. ''UFO'' was first broadcast in the UK and Canada in 1970, and in the US syndication over the next two years. It also has been rerun on UKTV channel Drama. The Andersons' live-action science fiction movie ''Doppelgänger'' (also known as ''Journey to the Far Side of the Sun'') is considered an immediate precursor to ''UFO'', which was their first entirely live-action T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Straker-Squire
Straker-Squire (also known as Brazil Straker) was a British automobile manufacturer based in Bristol, and later Edmonton in North London. The company was formed in 1893 at St Philips, Bristol, as Brazil, Straker & Co by the Irish engineer J.P. Brazil and the London motor agent Sidney Straker. In 1899 Sidney Straker joined forces with Edward Bayley and went into production of steam wagons, joining in partnership with L.R.L. Squire in 1904 and production reached 200 steam wagons by 1906. In 1907 the company moved into a new factory on Lodge Causeway, Fishponds, at first to manufacture commercial vehicles, including large numbers of early London Buses, and a French car design under licence. The company also produced and successfully raced a number of its own car designs. When World War I started, Sir Roy Fedden, their chief designer, convinced the company to take on aircraft engine repair and manufacture, and that arm of the company was taken over by Cosmos Engineering in 1918. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Straker
Anthony Othneal Straker (born 23 September 1988) is a semi-professional footballer who most recently played for National League South side Havant & Waterlooville. A defender or midfielder, he has also been capped on ten occasions by the Grenada national football team. Club career Born in Ealing, London, Straker started his career in the youth system at Crystal Palace, and was a trainee with the club. He went on trial with League One club Yeovil Town in March 2007 before being released by Palace. Straker signed a one-year contract with Conference Premier club Aldershot Town on 6 August 2007, after a successful pre-season trial. After impressing in the first half of the season, Straker signed a contract extension in February 2008, keeping him at Aldershot Town until June 2010. That season, he was a member of the team that won the Conference League Cup and the Conference Premier title. During the January transfer window of 2011, Straker completed a one-month loan deal with Wycom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Straker Coat Of Arms
Straker is a surname. The surname of Straker was derived from the Old English word 'stracian' an occupational name 'the striker'. Occupational surnames refer directly to the particular trade or occupation followed by the first bearer of the name. The surname Straker was first found in Lancashire where they held a family seat as Lords of the Manor. The Saxon influence of English history diminished after the Battle of Hastings in 1066. The language of the courts was French for the next three centuries and the Norman ambience prevailed. But Saxon surnames survived and the family name was first referenced in the year 1246 when Robert Straker held lands. Notable people with the surname include: * Anthony Straker, English-born Grenadian footballer * Arthur Straker, English first-class cricket player * D. Augustus Straker, Barbados-born lawyer and jurist, first black lawyer to appear before the Michigan Supreme Court * Granville Straker, American music businessman and record producer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Straker Band
The Nick Straker Band were an English pop music group from London, England, led by musician and vocalist Nick Straker. Several members of the band were also in New Musik, and the band's line-up consisted of Straker along with Tony Mansfield, Tony Hibbert, David McShearer, Pete Hammond and Phil Towner. Their song "A Walk in the Park" peaked at No. 20 on the UK Singles Chart in 1980, having previously been a substantial hit in Continental Europe in 1979. Their most successful song in the US was "A Little Bit of Jazz", which spent one week at No. 1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play Chart in 1981. Discography Albums Singles See also *List of Billboard number-one dance club songs *List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Dance Club Songs chart This is a list of recording artists who have reached number one on ''Billboard magazine's'' Dance Club Songs chart. ''Billboard'' began ranking dance music on the week ending October 26, 1974, and this is the standard music pop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Granville Straker
Granville Straker (born September 12th, 1939) is a Saint Vincent-born American music businessman and record producer specializing in calypso music. He is known for his Brooklyn, New York-based record label Straker's Records, which he founded in 1971, as well as his production work for many of the artists signed to it. According to Mark Romano of AllMusic, Straker's Records "...defined major calypso and soca artists starting in the early '70s." Straker told record producer and researcher and Bill Nowlin that over a thirty year span his label released 600 to 700 albums, an excess of 1000 twelve inch records, and several thousand singles. Biography Straker first moved to Brooklyn from Trinidad in 1959. In 1971, he founded the calypso-centered record label Straker's Records. Around the same time, in response to the growing popularity of Caribbean music in Brooklyn, he set up several record stores in the area. Among the dozens of noteworthy calypsonians who released albums on Straker's R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Straker
Sir Louis Hilton Straker, KCMG (born 23 February 1944) is a politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines from 2015 to 2020. He was the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Commerce and Trade from 2001 to May 17, 2005 when he was transferred to the Ministry of Transport, Works and Housing during a cabinet reshuffle. He became Foreign Minister again in December 2005. Early life and education Straker was born on 23 February 1944 in Layou. He was raised in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines by his father Bertram Augustus Straker. He was educated at the Layou Government school, then to the Emmanuel High school an later gained higher education at the Hunter College, New York. Political career In the 2001 general election his party gained 69.2% of the vote. The Unity Labour Party gain government and Louis Straker was elected to house of parliament. In the 2015 general election his party gained 52.28% of the vote with a total of 34,246 of the votes. L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Straker
Lester Paul Straker Bolnalda (born October 10, 1959) is a former professional baseball right-handed starting pitcher. He played two seasons for the Minnesota Twins in 1987-88. Straker is currently the pitching coach for the DSL Phillies. Career A ten-year minor leaguer, Straker went all the way to the 1987 World Series in his rookie year. As a young prospect, Straker was released by the Cincinnati Reds and Oakland Athletics. He made his major league debut with the Twins as their number-three starter behind Frank Viola and Bert Blyleven. Straker became the first Venezuelan to pitch in the World Series when he started games three and six. He began 1988 on the disabled list and never completely recovered his form, being released when the season was over. He played two additional seasons in the minor leagues. In his two-season, 47-game career, Straker had a record of 10–15, with 99 strikeouts, one shutout, one save, and a 4.22 earned run average. Coaching Straker was named as t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Straker
Arthur Coppin Straker (12 August 1893 – 14 October 1961) was an English cricketer. Straker's batting and bowling styles are unknown. He was born at Hexham, Northumberland. He was educated at Harrow School and played in the 1909 and 1910 Eton v Harrow matches at Lord's as a lower-order batsman. Straker made his only first-class appearance for Cambridge University against Northamptonshire in 1913. In this match, he was dismissed for a duck by George Thompson in the university's first-innings, while in their second-innings he was dismissed for 21 runs by the same bowler. Straker later made appeared for Denbighshire, making his debut for the Welsh county in the 1933 Minor Counties Championship against the Yorkshire Second XI. He made a further four Minor Counties Championship appearances for the county, the last of which came against Cheshire in 1935. He died in Pawston, Mindrum, Northumberland on 14 October 1961. At the time of his death he was described as a "raceho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Straker
Nick Straker (born Nicholas Bailey) is a London-born musician, who had hits in Europe and the US in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Career Straker joined his first band, called Stonehenge, in 1969. The band changed its name in 1971 to Matumbi, a reggae band signed to Trojan Records, but Straker left in 1974. Along with his friend, guitarist Dave McShera, Straker joined Pete Hammond (bass) and Phil Towner (drums) in a dance band playing working men's clubs and weddings. They then met American soul singer Limmie Snell, and the band became Limmie Funk Limited with Andy Gierus on guitar. They played discotheques around the country and toured the Netherlands and Sweden in early 1978. Tony Mansfield, later the lead singer and songwriter with New Musik, joined, originally as roadie, but eventually he and Straker formed a collaboration that led to the recording of a successful UK single, "A Walk in the Park", in 1979. A year later, the track was re-recorded and released, and made numb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
’Salem’s Lot
''Salem's Lot'' is a 1975 horror novel by American author Stephen King. It was his second published novel. The story involves a writer named Ben Mears who returns to the town of Jerusalem's Lot (or 'Salem's Lot for short) in Maine, where he lived from the age of five through nine, only to discover that the residents are becoming vampires. The town is revisited in the short stories "Jerusalem's Lot" and " One for the Road", both from King's story collection '' Night Shift'' (1978). The novel was nominated for the World Fantasy Award in 1976 and the Locus Award for the All-Time Best Fantasy Novel in 1987. In two separate interviews in the 1980s, King said that, of all his books, ''Salem's Lot'' was his favorite. In his June 1983 ''Playboy'' interview, the interviewer mentioned that because it was his favorite, King was planning a sequel, but King has said on his website that because '' The Dark Tower'' series already continued the narrative in ''Wolves of the Calla'' and '' Song o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Street Fighter 2010
is a cyberpunk side-scrolling action platform game developed and published by Capcom for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1990. It was marketed as a science-fiction-themed spin-off to the 1987 arcade game ''Street Fighter''. Its English localization changed the name and backstory of the main character to imply that he was Ken from ''Street Fighter'', whereas the protagonist in the original Japanese version is a completely unrelated character named Kevin. All localizations of ''Street Fighter 2010'' are a different genre from the traditional ''Street Fighter'' games, which are one-on-one fighting games. Gameplay The player takes control of Ken, a former martial arts champion who has been given cybernetic implants. The objective of each stage is to destroy the designated enemy target shown before the stage begins and obtain the energy required to open a transdimensional portal to the next stage. Some stages require the player to destroy more than one enemy to accumulate t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
