Baker has conducted studies of performance standards and national assessment policies for the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Education Forum Project, and the Asia-Pacific Educational Research Association.
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She has served as chair of the Board on Testing and Assessment (BOTA) of the National Research Council, a recipient of an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Visiting Fellowship.
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As he was concluding his business and preparing to return, Justice DeForest Porter requested Baker serve as special prosecutor for a Maricopa County attorney accused of malfeasance in office.
Anna painted 18 paintings in which she visualized the French realist painter and sculptor, Rosa Bonheur, on imaginary world travels.
Benjamin F. Baker (1862–1927), U.S. Navy sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
Bernard N. Baker (1854–1918), shipping magnate from Baltimore, Maryland
He married Elizabeth Livezey in 1877 and the couple had two daughters, of whom Marguerite Harrison had an adventure-filled life as a journalist, moviemaker, and spy.
The Bakers moved to North Dakota in the spring of 1907 and settled on a farm in Renville County.
Beware of Mr. Baker is a 2012 documentary film by Jay Bulger about rock drummer Ginger Baker.
Bruce is married to Joanne Harrell and they are raising their family in the Mt. Baker neighborhood.
Center Park, located at 2121 26th Avenue South, is a subsidized high-rise building complex located in the Mt. Baker neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, designed to provide living accommodation to physically or mentally challenged individuals and their caretakers.
Because of Baker's role in the insurance business, the appointment caused controversy, but he and the hospital's CEO, Paul F. Levy, denied any conflict of interest.
Born in Churchville, New York, Baker attended the common schools, Cary Collegiate Institute of Oakfield, and the New York Seminary at Lima.
He played the part of an artist and painting tutor in Joanna Hogg's film Archipelago, shot on Tresco, Isles of Scilly in 2009.
Famous residents of Dennis Port include U.S. military hero Benjamin F. Baker.
He was commissioned by Governor Ruby Laffoon of Kentucky as part of the Honorary Order of Kentucky Colonels, of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, in 1935.
Baker is the maternal grandfather of jazz saxophonist and Oscar nominee Dexter Gordon.
STS-34 Atlantis (October 18–23, 1989) launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
Matt E. Baker - State Representative, Pennsylvania House of Representatives, District 68
Baker attended Lincoln Grammar and Hayes Valley Grammar schools in San Francisco and graduated from Commercial High School in that city; he then did four years of legal study with the firm of Frank and Eisner, also in San Francisco.
Glacier is the community closest to Mt. Baker (northernmost of the Cascade volcanoes), is within 10 air miles of Mt. Baker's summit and a 20 mile drive to the Mt. Baker Ski Area with awe-inspiring views of Mount Shuksan, one of the most photographed mountains in the world.
Harold A. Baker (Harold Albert Baker, born 1929), federal judge on United States District Courts in Illinois
After a successful reunion tour, as well as playing a variety of festivals over summer 2007, James teamed up with the producer and musician Lee 'Muddy' Baker to start work on a new studio album.
Runnels was the uncle of Texas Governor Hardin Richard Runnels, and William R. Baker, a Texas State Senator was married to Runnels’ niece, Hester, He is also a distant relative of Virgil Runnels AKA WWE Superstar Dusty Rhodes
Collections open for research include the papers of Senators Howard H. Baker, Jr., William Emerson Brock III, Estes Kefauver, Fred Dalton Thompson, Howard Baker, Sr., and Congresswoman Irene Baker.
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Toward that end, the Baker Studies Program is sponsoring academic conferences on topics ranging from Senator Baker’s role in the Senate Watergate Committee’s investigation to the service rendered by Senator Baker as Senate minority and majority leader, President Richard Nixon’s overtures to Senator Baker as a possible successor to U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan, and Senator Baker’s tenure as White House Chief of Staff to President Ronald Reagan.
Dean Baker sent three professors, George Cabot Lodge, Henry Arthur and Thomas Raymond, to gauge the level of support from the business community and society at large in each of the Central American countries for the project.
Then he engaged in mercantile and agricultural pursuits, especially in breeding Merino sheep.
The book recounts a single year from October to April (probably of 1962/3) from the author's ten-year obsession with the peregrines that wintered near his home in Chelmsford, Essex in eastern England.
Captain Baker was the grandfather of President Ronald Reagan's Chief of Staff, James Addison Baker III.
He was an assistant to special representative of Secretary of War Newton D. Baker in 1919.
Laurence S. Baker (1830–1907), officer in the Confederate States Army
Leslie M. Baker, Jr., president and chief executive officer of Wachovia Corporation
The Los Angeles and Independence Railroad Company was incorporated in January 1875 with Francisco P. Temple, John P. Jones, Robert S. Baker, T. N. Park, James A. Pritchard, J. S. Slauson, and J. U. Crawford, as directors.
The invitation was issued in the name of US President George H.W. Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and signed by US Secretary of State James A. Baker, III and Boris Pankin for the Soviet Union, and a reply by October 23, 1991, was requested.
The bridge is named for Murray M. Baker, who was the first vice president of the company that eventually became Caterpillar.
The Clipse song "Grindin'" (2002) uses the lyric "patty cake patty cake I'm the bakers man, I bake them cakes as fast as I can".
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Composer Martin Wesley-Smith (b. 1945) used the tune in his composition "White Knight Waltz".
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The joke used by Crosby and Hope was also attempted by Maxwell Smart (Don Adams) and his old army buddy, Sid (Don Rickles) in the Get Smart (1965–70) episode, "The Little Black Book"; in their case, it failed.
Lt. Col. Addison E. Baker, group commander, and Major John L. Jerstad, a former member of the group who had volunteered for this mission, were posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for action in the Ploesti raid.
In 1997, LaKritz became an attorney with the Washington, D.C. law firm of Baker Donelson, working in the firm's China practice, which included former U.S. Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger and former White House Chief of Staff and U.S. Senate Majority Leader, Howard H. Baker.
Baker's fourth feature, Starlet, stars Dree Hemingway and was released on November 9, 2012 in the US by Music Box Films.
Simon Richard Baker III (born March 30, 1986) is an Aboriginal Canadian actor, of Cree, Haida, and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh descent.
Stephen L. Baker (born 1955), journalist and author of The Numerati
The Sahotas were at the forefront of seeking this recognition, performing live on Cilla Black’s Surprise, Surprise, Blue Peter, 8:15 from Manchester and Eggs 'n' Baker.
The Wild Cherries was an Australian rock group, which started in late 1964 playing R&B and became "the most relentlessly experimental psychedelic band on the Melbourne discotheque / dance scene" according to commentator, Glenn A. Baker.
In 1934, Baker joined the shipbuilding division of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation and became a registered professional engineer in the states of California and Massachusetts.