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2 unusual facts about David Baker-Gabb


David Baker-Gabb

From 1993, Baker-Gabb served as Director of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, and during his term of office he established the Gluepot Reserve in South Australia.

Baker-Gabb studied agriculture and then biology at Massey University in Palmerston North, New Zealand, graduating in 1978 with a masters degree in science for his work on the Swamp Harrier.


Artificial gravity

Mars Direct: A plan for a manned Mars mission created by NASA engineers Robert Zubrin and David Baker in 1990, later expanded upon in Zubrin's 1996 book The Case for Mars.

Clement Reyner

The materials for this work were collected by David Baker, and then his friend, John Jones, alias Leander à S. Martino, wrote up the materials into respectable latinity.

Conservative Europe Group

Founded to promote the UK's entry to the European Economic Community (now the European Union), CEG was launched in May 1967 as the European Forum, with David Baker as the founding chairman.

Glyphostoma gabbii

Glyphostoma gabbii, common name Gabb's tooth turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clathurellidae.

Jazz education

Early jazz educators such as Jamey Aebersold, David Baker and Jerry Coker laid the groundwork for a more universal educational practice.

Jazz in the Space Age

The album contains tracks conducted and arranged by Russell performed by Ernie Royal, Bob Brookmeyer, Frank Rehak, Al Kiger, Marky Markowitz, David Baker, Jimmy Buffington, Hal McKusick, Dave Young, Sol Schlinger, Bill Evans, Paul Bley, Barry Galbraith, Howard Collins, Milt Hinton, Don Lamond and Charlie Persip.

Jimmy Coe

Other musicians he worked with included Montgomery, Slide Hampton, David Baker, Freddie Hubbard, pianist Carl Perkins, Larry Ridley, Leroy Vinnegar, and doo-wop sensations The Students.

Ralph Bowen

In 1983 and 1984, he was awarded two more grants to pursue his musical studies in the Jazz Department at Indiana University, where he honed his skills in the rigorous Artist Diploma program under the tutelage of Distinguished Professor David Baker.

Robert Sims

He joined David Baker and Mercedes Ellington for Duke Ellington’s The Sacred Concerts and My People, and in 1997 toured Japan with the Pacific Music Festival Orchestra singing Leonard Bernstein’s Opening Prayer. A favorite at Dr. Robert Schuller’s Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California, Sims has appeared on several Hour of Power international telecasts.

William More Gabb

In 1873 the government of Costa Rica engaged Gabb to perform a survey of the geography, geology and resources in the little-known Talamanca Region.


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