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unusual facts about M. A. R. Barker


Philip Barker

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


David R. Barker

He has also been featured on radio programs such as Marketplace, As It Happens, The Jerry Doyle Show, The Santita Jackson Show, Pratt on Texas, Iowa Public Radio and many others.

Edmund W. Barker

Barker was educated at Serangoon English School and Raffles Institution, before going on to Raffles College (a predecessor institution of the present-day National University of Singapore) in 1940.

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.

George W. Littlefield

He believed that the UT textbooks were too Northern-focused; so in 1914, he established the "Littlefield Fund for Southern History" to amass the archival sources which the historian Eugene C. Barker told him were needed to obtain a more accurate writing of history.

Herbert Eugene Bolton

In 1904, Bolton and Eugene C. Barker published With the Makers of Texas: A Source Reader in Texas History, a textbook.

Kenneth L. Barker

Barker earned his B.A. from Northwestern College, his Th.M. from Dallas Theological Seminary (1960), and his Ph.D. from the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (1969).

McGill University Institute of Islamic Studies

The Institute of Islamic Studies has had numerous famous faculty members, including, Wilfred Cantwell Smith, Toshihiko Izutsu, Niyazi Berkes, Muhammad Abd-al-Rahman Barker, Fazlur Rahman Malik, Issa J. Boullata, Sajida Alvi, and Wael Hallaq.

Museum anthropology

Leading senior scholars in the field today include Nancy Parezo, Candace S. Greene, Catherine S. Fowler, Daniel C. Swan, Robin Boast, Laura Peers, Sally Price, Ruth B. Phillips, Christian Feest, James Clifford, Jason Baird Jackson, and Alex W. Barker.

Riverside, Texas

Two famous natives of Riverside are singer-actress Jennifer Holliday (born 1960), best known for her creation of the role of Effie in the successful Tony-award winning Broadway musical "Dreamgirls"; and Eugene C. Barker, Texas historian (born 1874).

Sid W. Richardson

Sid Richardson Hall, an academic building at the University of Texas, Austin, which houses the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, Eugene C. Barker Texas History Collection, the UT Center for American History, and the Benson Latin American Collection.

Stephen F. Barker

Its five chapters concern Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry, and literalist and non-literalist views on the meaning of numbers.

William M. Barker

William Muecke Barker (born on September 13, 1941 in Chattanooga, Tennessee) was Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court from 1995-2009.


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