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2 unusual facts about Sabre


Le Sabre

Buick LeSabre, an American-made General Motors full-size car, manufactured 1959–2005

Sabre

In the late 20th and early 21st century, swords with sabre blades are worn by most national Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine and Coast Guard officers.


2000 World Fencing Championships

The event took place from June 29 to July 2, 2000 for competitions in women's team sabre and women's individual sabre, both of which were not held at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Akina Pau

Pau Ming Wai Akina (born 14 October 1974) is a fencer from Hong Kong, China who won a bronze medal at the 2006 Asian Games in the women's sabre team competition.

Andy Kanavan

A session musician, Kanavan drummed for Decca, Polydor and indie label Sabre and became the drummer for the band Dream Cast on their ill fated European tour, in which Dave Elliott (guitar), Chris Nichols (keyboards) and Helen Raven (vocals) died in a horrific traffic accident.

Avenel, New Jersey

Dagmara Wozniak (born 1988), Polish-American U.S. Olympic sabre fencer.

Brayden McNabb

He attended Athol Murray College of Notre Dame, a prep school in Wilcox, Saskatchewan, where he played alongside current Buffalo Sabre Tyler Myers, also a defenceman.

Capricorn Coast

The Shoalwater Bay Military Training Area (SBMTA) frequently sees deployments of in excess of 30,000 troops, plus annual training exercises with the Singapore Armed Forces and bi-annual Talisman Sabre exercises with the US Military.

Douglas Warren

Douglas became Commanding Officer of 410 F86 Sabre Squadron at RAF North Luffenham, England in 1952.

Gary Jobson

Jobson currently races an Etchells, owns a Sabre 402, Whirlwind and has a partnership in a NYYC Swan 42, Mustang.

Giuseppe Radaelli

Giuseppe Radaelli, a 19th century Milanese fencer of the Italian school of swordsmanship, is noted for the development of modern sabre play with a light, narrow-bladed weapon.

IBM Research

IBM Research was behind the inventions of the SABRE travel reservation system, the technology of laser eye surgery, magnetic storage, the relational database, UPC barcodes and Watson, the question-answering computing system that won a match against human champions on the Jeopardy! television quiz show.

If Winter Comes

Set in the English village Penny Green in 1939, the film focuses on Mark Sabre, an author and publisher who is unhappily married to Mabel, a humorless and cold woman who usually spends her days gossiping with the townspeople.

Ihab Ali Nawawi

After Wadih el-Hage asked Essam al-Ridi to sell a private Sabre-40 jet on the Egyptian market, al-Ridi traveled to Khartoum where he met with Nawawi and the pair of them tried to repair the plane; however the brakes failed after a test flight with both men flying, and the plane crashed into a sand dune.

Jiří Dudáček

As Czechoslovakia was a Communist country at the time of Dudáček's drafting, bringing him to North America was a difficult proposition for the Sabre organization.

Johann Caspar Horner

Polak, Christian (2005) Sabre et pinceau, par d'autres Français au Japon.

Mihai Covaliu

Covaliu then disposed of Mathieu Gourdain 15–12 to earn the first Romanian gold medal in sabre and become number one in FIE rankings.

Mirror Wars

The role of the Sabre-Toothed fighter was played by a Sukhoi Su-35UB.

Russian company Sukhoi has developed a high-accuracy weapon for single strategic operations: a fifth-generation jet fighter, the Sukhoi Su-XX, nicknamed Sabre-Toothed.

Mohd Sabre Mat Abu

Sabre was promoted to the senior after SUKMA 2006 where Mohd Azraai Khor Abdullah scout his potential alongside his teammates Baddrol Bakhtiar, Mohd Khyril Muhymeen Zambri, Muhammad Shafiq Jamal, Mohd Bunyamin Umar and Abdul Hadi Abdul Hamid from national Malaysia U-20.

Patient Abuse

The sketch ends with the nurse (Carol Cleveland) coming in with a bloody sabre, implying that she has just stabbed the last waiting patient.

Rao Qamar Suleman

Rao Qamar Suleman, who comes from Okara, was trained initially at PAF Public School, Sargodha where he belonged to the 17th entry (851 – Sabre House).

Rebecca Ward

A member of the Oregon Fencing Alliance (OFA), she trained with Ed Korfanty and has won a record number of world titles for a female sabre fencer in 2006; Cadet (U17), Junior (U20), Junior Team and Senior.

Robin Hood Cave Horse

Similar accusations were made against a Machairodus or sabre-toothed cat tooth found at the same time, and equally singular among the many thousands of animal remains excavated at the site (now acknowledged as authentic).

Sabre River

CM3 Sabre River was written by Douglas Niles and Bruce Nesmith, with a cover by Keith Parkinson, and was published by TSR in 1984 as a 32-page booklet with an outer folder.

Sandra Sassine

She competed in the women's individual sabre event at the 2012 Summer Olympics where she lost to Aleksandra Socha in the first round.

Shan Morgan

Her time in office coincided with sabre-rattling by President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who described the British as "an occupying colonial force in the Falkland Islands" (Las Malvinas) in October 2010, when she complained to the UN about "militarisation of the South Atlantic".

Szabla wz. 34

Unlike the earlier models, the new sabre was being produced by a single factory, the Kielce-based Huta Ludwików (hence the name ludwikówka often applied to the wz.34).

Teach For America

Tim Morehouse (New York '00), Silver Medal winner in the men's sabre as a member of the United States fencing team at the 2008 Summer Olympics

The Chump

At the end of the episode, Michael is ambushed by WBRE-TV reporters asking about the rumors of Sabre printers catching fire.

Visovac Monastery

The rich monastery library includes particularly rare incunabula of Aesop's fables (Brescia 1487) printed by the Lastovo printer Dobrić Dobričević (s. Lastovo), a collection of documents (the sultan'sedicts) and a sabre belonging to Vuk Mandušić, one of the best-loved heroes of Serbian epic poetry.

Women's sabre at the 2010 World Fencing Championships

The Women's sabre event took place on November 6, 2010 at Grand Palais.

Yevgeny Pepelyaev

Nelson managed to bring his crippled Sabre back to Kimpo Air Base, where it was written off.


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