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7 unusual facts about Barker


Arthur Barker

Arthur R. Barker (June 4, 1899 – January 13, 1939) was an American criminal, the son of Ma Barker and a member of the Barker-Karpis gang along with Alvin Karpis.

Audrey Sale-Barker

On 6 August 1947, she married George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk and assumed the Douglas-Hamilton surname; they had no children.

Sale-Barker was captain of the British women's team at the 1936 Winter Olympics, held at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, the first Olympics to include alpine skiing.

Barker's Farm

The business has been operational since 1642, making it one of the oldest companies in the United States.

Matthew Raymond-Barker

Raymond-Barker is a student, studying French and Spanish at the University of Bath and was in France for a period of six months to improve his French language skills at University of Toulouse.

Raymond-Barker qualified to the Final 12 after singing "Just the Way You Are" by Bruno Mars in the auditions.

Redmires Reservoirs

The three reservoirs are named Upper, Middle and Lower and date from 1836 and were built to provide clean drinking water via a water course down to Barker's Pool 5½ miles away following the devastating Sheffield cholera epidemic of 1832.


Andrew Bowne

A proposal by East Jersey Proprietors William Dockwra, Thomas Barker, Clement Plumstead and Peter Sonmans recommended Bowne or Richard Ingoldesby for governor; if Ingoldesby was the choice then they recommended Bowne for a Council seat (It is notable that these were four of the six who had signed the defective commission as governor).

Artists' Suffrage League

The body was responsible for the creation of a large number of posters, Christmas cards, postcards and banners designed by artists who included the Chair Mary Lowndes, Emily Ford, Barbara Forbes, May H Barker, Clara Billing, Dora Meeson Coates, Violet Garrard, Bertha Newcombe, C Hedly Charlton and Emily J Harding.

Barker lever

The Barker lever is a pneumatic system which multiplies the force of a finger on the key of a tracker pipe organ.

Bill Koeb

In addition to the series, Koeb painted the 18-page story "For My Son", written by Frank Lovece, for Clive Barker's Hellraiser Summer Special #1 (1992).

Buckner Stith Morris

Morris married Evelina Barker in Kentucky in 1832 and the couple moved to Chicago in 1834 where Morris established a law practice with J. Young Scammon and created the Chicago Lyceum, the city's first literary society.

Colin Barker

A Trotskyist, Barker was a member of the International Socialism Group in Oxford and Manchester from 1962.

Darren Barker

Barker then travelled to Canada in August 2008 and beat local man Larry Sharpe, a former Canadian champion and Commonwealth challenger, in a non-title fight over 10 rounds.

Dead letter office

Horror writer Clive Barker's book The Great and Secret Show features segments centered around the dead letter office at Omaha, Nebraska.

East Technical High School

East Tech's first principal was James F. Barker (1906–1911) from Muskegon, Michigan.

Ethan Nicolle

During the spring of 1995, Nicolle started his comics career as the staff cartoonist on The Barker at North Bend High School in North Bend, Oregon.

Frank Lovece

Lovece went on to write stories for Epic's anthology series Clive Barker's Hellraiser, and wrote the nine-issue run of Hokum & Hex for Marvel's Razorline imprint, created by novelist Barker.

George P. Barker

In 1840, he ran for Mayor of Buffalo, New York, but was defeated by the Whig candidate Sheldon Thompson in a close race: 1135 for Thompson, 1125 for Barker.

Henry Aston Barker

After the Battle of Waterloo, Barker visited the field, and went to Paris, where he obtained from the officers at headquarters all necessary information on the subject of the battle.

Holly Hallstrom

Following their testimonies in Barker's failed lawsuit against Hallstrom, models Janice Pennington, Kathleen Bradley, production assistants Linda Riegert and Sherrill Paris, and veteran director Paul Alter lost their jobs on The Price Is Right.

International Association of People-Environment Studies

People-environment studies, originating from environmental psychology (Lewin, Barker, Brunswik), have always tried to close the “mind gaps” between natural sciences, engineering, arts, and social sciences by an epistemological approach that encompasses denotations (objects and techniques) as well as connotations (subjective social, cultural meanings).

INXS: Live at Barker Hangar

The concert was recorded at the band's performance on 8 May 1993 at the "Barker Hangar" at Santa Monica Airport in Southern California.

Jenny Barker

Jenny Barker (born December 29, 1974) was the drive time presenter on Cross Rhythms City Radio in Stoke-on-Trent in 2005.

John Etchemendy

His latest book, written with Jon Barwise and Dave Barker-Plummer, is Language, Proof and Logic (2000, 2006), a popular introductory logic textbook.

Joseph P. Moran

When the Barker-Karpis Gang kidnapped and ransomed Minnesota banker Edward Bremer for $200,000, Moran helped launder the money through his practice in Chicago.

Lead Into Gold

Primarily a solo project by Barker, Lead Into Gold featured occasional guest performances by his Ministry bandmates Al Jourgensen and Bill Rieflin.

Lewis Meeson Newsagent

With the head office based in Barker and Dobson’s home town of Liverpool, the chain went on acquired further newsagent chains such as, T H Sperring, NSS and Centre News.

Linda Barker

Barker is a longterm fan of the 1980s BBC television series Howards' Way starring Jan Harvey.

Lovers and Friends

Notable stars from the series who went on to greater fame in either daytime or primetime series, were Rod Arrants (who married his co-star, Patricia Estrin), Nancy Marchand, Patricia Barry, Christine Jones, Margaret Barker, Nancy Snyder, John Heffernan, and Patricia Englund.

Meet the Barkers

In 2008, MuchMusic (before becoming Much) started airing Meet the Barkers after Barker's involvement with the 2008 South Carolina Learjet 60 crash, along with the late DJ AM, they both survived.

Mount Barker, Western Australia

Mount Barker has a hospital and medical centre, police station, TAFE College, a Community college catering for K-12 schooling, childcare facilities plus Scouts and Girl Guides.

Peramangk

The Karrawatta (west) and Mutingengal (east), occupied lands to the north of Mount Barker, but somewhat south of the River Torrens.

Phil Barker

Phil Barker was a founder member of the Society of Ancients, serving on the committee for many years and contributing regularly to their magazine Slingshot.

Philip Barker

M. A. R. Barker (Phillip Barker, 1929–2012), American professor of Urdu and South Asian Studies.

Rhysh Roshan Rai

He was also concurrently playing for his school’s (Anglo-Chinese School – Barker) soccer team.

Rob St. John

St. John wrote the original music for the Jeremy Deller and Nick Abrahams film The Bruce Lacey Experience, and produced the "Pendle, 1612" compilation album with David Chatton-Barker, commemorating the anniversary of the Pendle Witch Trials.

Roger Dobkowitz

Bob Barker would often ask Dobkowitz when the last time an unusual event in the show's history took place, which became such a frequent occurrence toward the end of Barker's tenure that one Showcase skit had Dobkowitz reading from a fake book entitled "Roger, when was the last time that happened?"

Shaun Barker

Born in Trowell, Nottinghamshire, Barker started his career at Rotherham as a junior making his debut in March 2003 against Brighton & Hove Albion.

Stan Barker

In addition to teaching jazz, Barker has done recordings and gigs with such artists as Digby Fairweather, Al Grey, Buddy Tate, Al Wood, and Billy Butterfield.

The Cabaret of Dr Caligari

#The Body Politic - an M.P. is introduced to the consequences of eroding the NHS...
It featured John Shrapnel as Mr. Meagre, Adjoa Andoh as Mrs. Meagre, Cassie Macfarlane as the Past, Clarence Smith as the Present and Alan Barker as the Future.

The Honourable Wally Norman

The town of Lobethal provided the hotel, Mount Barker provided the meatworks and the St Francis de Sales College, and Nairne hosted the main street for the billy-cart race shown near the beginning of the movie.

The Midnight Meat Train

The Midnight Meat Train is a 2008 mystery horror-thriller film based on Clive Barker's 1984 short story of the same name, which can be found in Volume One of Barker's collection Books of Blood.

The Mrs Ackroyd Band

Named for the late Mrs. Ackroyd, a mongrel belonging to Barker, the band's membership has also included, at one time or another, June Tabor, Martin Carthy, Eliza Carthy, Norma Waterson, Martin Allcock, Bernard Wrigley, Nick Fairclough, Timothy Inman, and Ben Mepsted.

The Odd Job

The concept was originally made as an episode of the London Weekend Television/ITV series 6 Dates With Barker in 1971, with Ronnie Barker as Arthur Harris and David Jason as the Odd Job Man (who plays the same role in the feature film).

Theatre games

The theatre games tradition is a method of training actors that was developed in the 20th century by practitioners such as Joan Littlewood, Viola Spolin, Clive Barker, Keith Johnstone, Jerzy Grotowski and Augusto Boal.

Tony Barker

After the 1988 season, head coach Bob Valesente left and Glen Mason took over, because of the coaching change, Barker transferred to Rice after his sophomore season.

Trippy

SV Angel also participated, along with individuals including Rob Solomon, Tim Ferriss, Brian Lee, Gil Ebaz, Brandee Barker, Chase Jarvis, Randi Zuckerberg, Jason Mraz, and Rachel Zoe, as well as others.

U.S.S.A.

After their initial collaboration, Barker and Denison recruited vocalist Gary Call and drummer Johnny Rabb.

Wavii

Wavii had received funding from Mitch Kapor, Max Levchin, Dave Morin, Keith Rabois, Benjamin Ling, Joshua Schachter, Scott Banister, CrunchFund, Felicis Ventures, Gil Elbaz, Fritz Lanman, Matt Ocko, Rick Marini, Brandee Barker, Max Ventilla, MG Siegler, and SV Angel.

Will Thomas

In interviews, Thomas has said that Barker is based on men such as Richard Francis Burton and Edward William Barton-Wright, founder of Bartitsu.

Wong Fei-hung

In Will Thomas' third mystery novel, The Limehouse Text, his Victorian detective Cyrus Barker trained in martial arts in Guangdong under Wong Fei-hung's tutelage.

Zoe Motors

Neither host Bob Barker nor announcer Johnny Olson could keep from giggling when the incredulous contestant asked "What is that?" and later "It's a car?!" She did win it, and after enthusiastically hugging and kissing Barker, Barker quipped "If you want some affection, just give a lady a three-wheeled vehicle!" According to the show, the Zipper (the hardtop model) cost $3785.


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