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Stanko
Stanko or Stańko () is a variation of the Slavic masculine given name Stanislav (given name), Stanislav. Nicknames in . Notable people with the name include: Given name: *Stanko Abadžić (born 1952), Croatian photographer and photojournalist *Stanko Barać (born 1986), Croatian professional basketball player *Stanko Bloudek (1890–1959), Slovenian aeroplane and automobile designer, sportsman and sport inventor, designer, builder and educator *Stanko Bubalo (born 1973), Croatian football striker *Skanderbeg Crnojević, Stanko Crnojević (1457–1528), Serbian lord and Ottoman vassal *Stanko Karaman (1889–1959), researcher on amphipods and isopods *Stanko Kotnik (1928–2004), Slovene professor of Slavic studies at the University of Maribor *Stanko Lorger (1931–2014), Slovenian former hurdler and Olympic competitor *Stanko Mladenovski (born 1937), Macedonian politician *Stanko Mršić (born 1955), Croatian football manager and a former player *Stanko Poklepović (1938–2018), C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Stanko
Stephen Christopher Stanko (January 13, 1968 – June 13, 2025) was an American prisoner who was convicted of the 2005 murders of two people in South Carolina, as well as the kidnapping and rape of the teenage daughter of one of his murder victims. He was executed for his crimes on June 13, 2025. Prior to the murders Before his murder conviction, Stanko had been incarcerated for assault and kidnapping in 1996. Stanko was released from prison in 2004 after serving 8½ years of a 10-year sentence. While in prison, he co-authored ''Living in Prison: A History of the Correctional System With an Insider's View''. (The book was written during his first incarceration.) Stanko has been described as "a highly intelligent, polished ex-convict who didn't mind talking about his life in prison or the book he'd written about it." After his release in 2004, Stanko moved to Myrtle Beach, renting a room for almost a year. His parole officer visited the home to ensure his landlady was aware of hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanković
Stanković ( sr-Cyrl, Станковић, ) is a common surname derived from the South Slavic masculine given name Stanko. Stanković is the eighth most frequent surname in Serbia, and is also common in Croatia, with 2,842 carriers (2011 census). It may also be transliterated as Stankovich or Stankovych or Stankovic. Geographical distribution As of 2014, 81.6% of all known bearers of the surname ''Stanković'' were residents of Serbia (frequency 1:175), 8.4% of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1:840), 3.4% of Croatia (1:2,457), 3.2% of Kosovo (1:1,147) and 2.4% of Montenegro (1:529). In Serbia, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:175) in the following regions: * 1. Jablanica District (1:36) * 2. Pčinja District (1:55) * 3. Nišava District (1:63) * 4. Toplica District (1:74) * 5. Zaječar District (1:91) * 6. Pirot District (1:91) * 7. Podunavlje District (1:138) * 8. Bor District (1:139) * 9. Braničevo District The Braničevo District (, ) is one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomasz Stańko
Tomasz Ludwik Stańko (; 11 July 1942 – 29 July 2018) was a Polish trumpeter and composer associated with free jazz and the avant-garde. In 1962, Tomasz Stańko formed his first band, the Jazz Darings, with saxophonist Janusz Muniak, pianist Adam Makowicz, bassist Jacek Ostaszewski, drummer Wiktor Perelmuter. Inspired by Ornette Coleman and the innovations of John Coltrane, Miles Davis and George Russell (composer), George Russell, the group is often cited by music historians as the first European group to play free jazz. In his later years, he collaborated with pianist Krzysztof Komeda on Komeda's album ''Astigmatic (album), Astigmatic'', recorded in late 1965. In 1968, Stańko formed a quintet whose members were Janusz Muniak (tenor and soprano saxophones, flute), Zbigniew Seifert (alto sax and violin), Bronisław Suchanek (bass), Janusz Stefański (drums, percussion). In 1975, he formed the Tomasz Stańko-Adam Makowicz Unit. Stańko established a reputation as a leading fig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zvezdelina Stankova
Zvezdelina Entcheva Stankova (; born 15 September 1969) is an American mathematician who is a professor of mathematics at Mills College and a teaching professor at the University of California, Berkeley, the founder of the Berkeley Math Circle, and an expert in the combinatorial enumeration of permutations with forbidden patterns. Biography Stankova was born in Ruse, Bulgaria. She began attending the Ruse math circle as a fifth grader in Bulgaria, the same year she learned to solve the Rubik's Cube and began winning regional mathematics competitions. She later wrote of this experience that "if I was not a member of Ruse SMC I would not be able to make such profound achievements in mathematics". She became a student at an elite English-language high school, and competed on the Bulgarian team in the International Mathematical Olympiads in 1987 and 1988, earning silver medals both times. She entered Sofia University but in 1989, as the Iron Curtain was falling, became one of 15 Bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betsy Stanko
Elizabeth Anne Stanko (born December 30, 1950) is an American/British criminologist academic and researcher living and working in the UK. Stanko was awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2014 Queens Birthday Honours for her services to policing. Career Stanko holds a PhD from Graduate Center of the City University of New York, has worked at Clark University (US), Brunel University, Cambridge University and is an emeritus Professor at Royal Holloway, a visiting professor at University College London, City University of London and Sheffield Hallam universities. Her former graduate students include the sociologist Claire Maxwell. Stanko was part of a historic sexual harassment case against a university in 1981 which gained support from campaigners in the women's movement including Andrea Dworkin and Adrienne Rich. She worked as head of evidence and insight in the Mayor of London's Office for Policing and Crime. Stanko's research has been described as feminist cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanko Vraz
Stanko Vraz (baptized Jakob Fraß; 30 June 1810 – 20 May 1851) was a Slovenian language, Slovenian-Croatian language, Croatian poet. He Slavicized his name to ''Stanko Vraz'' in 1836. Biography Born in the village of Cerovec Stanka Vraza, Cerovec in Lower Styria, Austrian Empire (today in Slovenia), Vraz was one of the most important figures of the Illyrian Movement in the Kingdom of Croatia and Slavonia. He completed elementary school in Ljutomer and gymnasium (school), gymnasium in Maribor after which he studied philosophy in Graz. During his education and career he reached fluency in German language, German, French language, French, Spanish language, Spanish and multiple Slavic languages. He was the first Croatian to earn his living as a professional writer. He wrote poems and travelogues and collected folk poems. He also translated foreign literature into Croatian language, Croatian. While in Samobor, he met Julijana "Ljubica" Cantilly, the niece of his friend and colleague ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanko Abadžić
Stanko Abadžić (born 1952 in Vukovar) is a Croatian photographer and photojournalist. He lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia. Stanko Abadžić began his professional career in photography as a photojournalist for the Croatian daily newspaper Vjesnik. During that period he made well-known reportages from Tunisia, Malta, Turkey and other countries. After the onset of the Croatian war of independence in 1991, Abadžić moved abroad and would not return to Croatia for many years. After four years in Germany, he spent seven years in the Czech Republic in Prague, a city which had the greatest impact on his artistic expression. At this point in his career he moved away from photojournalism towards art photography. In the Czech Republic he participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions, the largest of which was a retrospective exhibition at the gallery Dom Jozefa Sudka in Prague, on which occasion his first monograph ''U ogledalu života (In The Mirror of Life)'' was published. In 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stankovci
Stankovci is a village and a municipality in the Zadar County in Croatia. History The Stankovci settlement was created after the battles between the Venetians and the Turks in the 16th and 17th centuries. After heavy fighting, a new population settled in the affected area under the leadership of the Franciscans, and in 1747 a Catholic parish was established. Population The community center and the largest settlement is Stankovci. In 2021, the municipality had 1,831 residents in the following 7 settlements: * Banjevci, population 401 * Bila Vlaka, population 156 * Budak, population 342 * Crljenik, population 123 * Morpolača, population 50 *Stankovci, population 634 * Velim, population 125 Politics Minority councils and representatives Directly elected minority councils and representatives are tasked with consulting tasks for the local or regional authorities in which they are advocating for minority rights and interests, integration into public life and participat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanko Bloudek
Stanko Bloudek (11 February 1890 – 26 November 1959) was a Slovenian aeroplane and automobile designer, a sportsman and a sport inventor, designer, builder and educator. Biography Stanko Bloudek was born on 11 February 1890 as son of a Czech father and a Slovenian mother in the Slovenian mining town of Idrija. He attended school in Most (in today’s Czech Republic), where his father worked in the local mining industry. After graduating from secondary school in 1908, Bloudek studied in Prague. At first, he studied at the Academy of Arts, but found it was not his interest and switched to technical studies. He never graduated from the academy, but was nonetheless regarded as an engineer. Bloudek was engaged as a pioneer of flight. In 1910, when in Prague, he presented his first monoplane called ''Racek'' ('Gull'). A second one named ''Libela'' ('dragonfly') followed in the next year. For some time he worked together with Igo Etrich, inventor of the ''Etrich Taube''. Before Wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanko Barać
Stanko Barać (born 13 August 1986) is a retired Croatian professional basketball player. Professional career Early years Barać was born in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina and he started his basketball career with the team Široki Prima pivo, from Široki Brijeg, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was selected by the Miami Heat as the 39th overall pick in the 2007 NBA draft and was traded to the Indiana Pacers. In July 2016 they passed their rights to the Dallas Mavericks. Spanish League Barać remained in Europe, signing a five-year contract with Saski Baskonia, then known as TAU Cerámica, in August 2007. In the October of that year, just before the start of the European season, Saski Baskonia loaned him out to another ACB team, Pamesa Valencia for the 2007–08 season. He returned to Saski Baskonia the following season, and In November 2010, he signed a three-year contract extension that will keep him in Vitoria-Gasteiz through 2015. Anadolu Efes On 6 July 2011 he signed a thre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanko Poklepović
Stanko "Špaco" Poklepović (19 April 1938 – 24 December 2018) was a Croatian professional Association football, football Football player, player and Manager (association football), manager. Poklepović managed a number of teams over 46 years, including HNK Hajduk Split, Hajduk Split on four occasions. He was also the first manager to win the Croatian First Football League with Hajduk Split, in its inaugural season, in 1992 Croatian First Football League, 1992. Playing career Throughout his whole career, Poklepović played for RNK Split, between 1956 and 1976, and won the Yugoslav Second League twice, first in the Yugoslav Second League#Seasons, 1956–57 (Zone I) season, and then after in the 1959–60 Yugoslav Second League, 1959–60 (West) season. Coaching career He made his impact in the 1984–85 Yugoslav First League as a manager of HNK Hajduk Split, Hajduk Split when he took over the Yugoslav powerhouse at the time when many important players left the club and many you ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanko Tavčar
Stanko Tavčar (2 February 1898 in Dobrova, Austro-Hungary – 11 July 1945 in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia) was a Yugoslav footballer and later a medical doctor.Career story at Reprezentacija.rs He was the first Slovenian footballer who played in the Yugoslavia national team. Football career He was born in Dobrova, near Ljubljana, and spend his entire football career, from 1912 until 1922, playing as defender in[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
