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  Hon. George J. Barker
George J. Barker, who became a resident of Lawrence in 1867 and was identified with that city and the state until his death on October 12, 1912, thoroughly earned a right to rank among the finest legal minds of Kansas during the last half century.
George J. Barker was born November 6, 1842, near Springfield, Massachusetts, son of Cyrus E. and Eliza (King) Barker.
Barker located in Lawrence, Kansas, in 1867 and his career from that time forward was marked by growing influence and practice as a lawyer and by numerous positions of trust and responsibility.
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 George Barker (poet) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Barker was born in Loughton, near the Epping Forest in Essex, England, and was raised by his mother in Chelsea, London.
Early volumes of note by Barker include Thirty Preliminary Poems (1933), Poems (1935) and Calamiterror (1937), which was inspired by the Spanish Civil War.
Barker's novel The Dead Seagull, published in 1950, described his affair with Smart, whose 1945 novel By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept was also about the affair.
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 Barker, William George   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Barker won the Victoria Cross for his one-man attack on about 60 German aircraft near Cambrai, France, on October 27, 1918.
Barker was not even on a combat flight at the time.
The episode was typical of William Barker, whose boldness and determination was matched by his superb skill as a pilot.
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 William "Billy" Barker
Barker and the rest of the RFC were instructed to maintain a close watch on German activities in the area.
Barker was awarded his second bar to the Military Cross for work done in the first two months of 1918, this was equivalent to being awarded the MC three times.
Barker flew the Bristol F2 more in August, 1918 as the Prince of Wales, who was attached to the British HQ in Italy that summer, took a keen interest in the activities of the RAF.
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 Guardian Unlimited Books | By genre | Review: The Chameleon Poet: A Life of George Barker by Robert Fraser
Barker wrote 19 books of poetry, had almost as many children by several women, was a Catholic, a bisexual, and never had a regular income, preferring instead to scrounge from rich friends or write pornography for Anaïs Nin at a dollar a page.
Barker's continual good luck is all the more remarkable because, as Fraser puts it with some tact, the "vigour of his expression was to depend on a marked sense of violation".
Barker's outbursts of verbal and physical violence against his wives and lovers seem to have been accepted by them as a part of the necessary expression of the artistic temperament.
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 GEORGE BARKER COLLECTION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
George Barker (1913-1991), a contemporary English writer and poet, is often categorized as a Romantic.
In this essay, Barker stresses the importance of the human being as the subject of poetry and the human passions as resources for the intellect.
Barker's notebooks (boxes 5 and 6) are valuable for the many early drafts of poems, essays, and letters they contain.
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 George Barker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Barker (painter) (1882–1965) was a portrait and landscape painter from the United States.
George Barker (poet) (1913–1991) was an English poet and author.
George Barker (politician) was Member of Parliament for Abertillery
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 Literary Encyclopedia: Barker, George
George Barker, one of the neglected voices of the twentieth century, is a poet who is difficult to classify and has frequently been misunderstood.
Barker was to have further lengthy relationships with Betty (“Cashenden”) Cass, and “Dede” Farrelly, with whom he lived for several years in Rome.
The absence of Barker from many academically received accounts of twentieth century British literature is a reflection, partly of his highly personal makeup, and partly of the restrictive logistics of canon-creation.
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 GEORGE BARKER (1882-1965)
George Barker, painter and art teacher, is the latest artist to be rediscovered in the study of Southern California's plein air landscape movement of the early twentieth century.
Barker was an advocate of the Santa Monica Mountains Protective Association and lectured passionately against fires that destroyed it.
Barker was a frequent lecturer on such topics as "Exploration in Color," "Art and Technique of Thomas Eakins," "Velazquez at the Prado," and "Quality in Painting." In December 1932 he was writing a brochure on art (although there is no indication that this was ever published).
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 suppl13Great Socialist Pop RecordsSupplement about other poets GEORGE BARKER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Barker's presentation of male sexuality in poetry evoked massed repressive forces, established to put down exactly that; the pioneering stance of him and Logue laid the way for a general upsurge of poetical male sexuality in the sixties, itself to some extent the groundwork for an upsurge of poetical female sexuality.
Barker belongs with the Apocalyptics even if he began publishing in 1930; he is a melancholy example of the failure of that group to produce a second wave of mature art after the first wave of wild and confused originality.
Barker and Dylan Thomas were born in successive years; they came between the Auden group and the Movement, both of whom came to occupy the Establishment and to impose their orthodoxy over decades.
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 Termpapers on William George Billy Barker
William George “Billy” Barker William George Barker was born in Dauphin, Manitoba on November 3, 1984.
Barker made an excellent role model for any fledging pilot and was a dedicated leader.
William Barker pioneered ground to air combat, and was not only an ace, but also a hero.
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 November 21, 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The bodies of Barker, a member of the Henry County Public Service Authority (PSA) board and a former member of the county board of supervisors, and his wife were found in their front yard.
George William Barker, 77, was pronounced dead at Memorial Hospital of Martinsville and Henry County.
George Barker had been the Irisburg District representative on the PSA Board of Directors since January of 1987.
www.martinsvillebulletin.com /archive/2002/Nov'02/n112102.htm   (2986 words)

  
 Collected Poems by George Barker Robert Fraser   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
They both had a way with adjectives, but whereas Barker piled on fancy long words like "multitudinous" Thomas used a subtle misplacement of common short words as in "not many then trod the rich and piling streets." They both wrote plays for radio around the same time.
Barker's was about the spirits of Baudelaire and Gerald Manley Hospkins.
There are a few gems, like the one quoted by Thwaite in the TLS review of the Fraser biography, but you have have to search hard in these 800 pages to find them.
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 Handbook of Texas Online: BARKER, TX
Barker is on Interstate Highway 10 seventeen miles west of downtown Houston in western Harris County.
Barker had an inn, a brick factory, a twine mill, a general store, a telephone company, a depot, two churches, a one-room public school, and a saloon.
The population in Barker stood at 100 from 1925 to 1949, when it declined to fifty.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/BB/hlb8.html   (328 words)

  
 City of Orlando, City Parks, George Barker Park
George Barker Park is located on Clear Lake, a cypress-lined lake populated with water birds and popular with boaters using the lake for fishing.
Originally developed in 1968, Barker Park was renovated in 1996 to include a fishing pier on Clear Lake and a new bridge.
The park is named for George A. Barker Jr., a former City Commissioner.
www.cityoforlando.net /public_works/parks/cityparks/GeorgeBarker/GeorgeBarker.htm   (94 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - George Barker (English Literature, 20th Century To The Present, Biography) - Encyclopedia
George Barker, English Literature, 20th Century To The Present, Biographies
George Barker (George Granville Barker), 1913–91, English poet, b.
Barker's published works include 30 Preliminary Poems (1933), Eros in Dogma (1944), News of the World (1950), The True Confession of George Barker (1950), The View From a Blind I (1962), Thurgarton Church (1969), The Alphabetical Zoo (1972), and Collected Poems (1987).
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 GEORGE BARKER COLLECTION
George Barker, poet, novelist and artist, was born in Loughton, Essex, England, of Irish and English parentage.
Barker taught at the State University of New York College at Buffalo, 1965-66; the University of Wisconsin 1971-72, and at Florida International University in 1974.
Inscribed on halftitle to George Barker by John Gawsworth - 1964.
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 George Frederic Barker
BARKER, George Frederic, physicist, born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, 14 July 1835.
Professor Barker has frequently been called upon to testify in important patent cases, and he was requested by the department of justice to act as one of the government experts in the suit against the American Bell Telephone Company.
In 1859 Professor Barker was elected a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and he has filled the offices of vice-president (1872) and president (1879).
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 New Statesman (1996): Artists on an eternal picnic: Bohemians such as George Barker (right) lived in creative chaos on ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
New Statesman (1996): Artists on an eternal picnic: Bohemians such as George Barker (right) lived in creative chaos on the margins of mainstream society.
Artists on an eternal picnic: Bohemians such as George Barker (right) lived in creative chaos on the margins of mainstream society.
In The Chameleon Poet, Robert Fraser's recent biography of George Barker, who died in 1991 at the age of 78, it comes on a summer evening in the 1980s when a visitor from London turns up at the Barkers' rambling, chaotic house in north Norfolk.
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 George Barker (painter) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
See (Click link for more info and facts about George Barker) George Barker for other notable people with the same name.
George Barker (9 May 1882 – 1965) was a portrait and landscape (An artist who paints) painter from the (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776) United States.
Born in (Click link for more info and facts about Omaha, Nebraska) Omaha, Nebraska, much of his work was done in (Click link for more info and facts about Southern California) Southern California.
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 Barker, George --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In a tribute to his loyalty and teamwork in government service, George Bush was elected the 41st president of the United States in 1988.
One of the first composers to use jazz themes within classical music forms, George Gershwin was primarily involved in the Broadway musical theater.
In a dramatization, George Washington recalls crossing the Delaware, spending the winter at Valley Forge and defeating the British at the Battle of Yorktown.
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 Tracey Emin - Artists on an Eternal Picnic: Bohemians such as George Barker Lived in Creative Chaos on the Margins of ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Their clan-base at Itteringham, at one stage accommodating nine of the progeny from Barker's various liaisons, had a popular reputation halfway between the Hellfire Club and an eternal hippy picnic.
In fact, what Barker represents, in half a dozen different and dazzling ways, is the absolute fag-end of what might be called the bohemian tradition in English literary life.
In Peter J Conradi's recent biography of Iris Murdoch, a visitor to the fantastically cluttered Oxfordshire house that she shared with her husband, John Bayley, marks it down as "beyond bohemianism" — in other words, more squalid than could be expected, even of two raptly self-absorbed literary types.
www.egs.edu /faculty/emin/emin-artists-on-an-eternal-picnic.html   (1914 words)

  
 Issues: Perspectives (November 1999): In Memoriam: George Barker Engberg
George Barker Engberg, professor emeritus at the University of Cincinnati, died April 11, 1999, in Rochester, New York, at the age of 86.
His life was marked by a remarkable capacity to balance and meld personal, family, and professional responsibilities into a seamless whole.
Whenever individual ambitions and private agendas seemed to make harmony impossible, the department could always "let George do it." Then, in the face of the narcissism and cliquish maneuvering so characteristic of university politics, he would proceed, to the amazement of those not-so-selfless, to accomplish the task.
www.historians.org /perspectives/issues/1999/9911/9911mem5.cfm   (425 words)

  
 George Barker, from Pacific Sonnets
In 1939 George Barker (1913-1991) was visiting professor at the second department of English literature in Japan, founded by Doi Kôchi, at the Imperial University at Sendai, now Tohoku University, following the departure of Ralph Hodgsen and preceding by twenty and fifty years respectively the arrivals at Sendai of James Kirkup and Peter Robinson.
Among Barker titles in print in the UK are Selected Poems and Collected Poems, both edited by Robert Fraser (available here and here), Essays (here), The Dead Seagull (here), Vision of Beasts and Gods (here), and Street Ballads (here).
Barker’s work is not in print in the United States.
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 George Barker Windship
WINDSHIP, George Barker, athlete, born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, 3 January, 1834; died there, 14 September, 1876.
George entered Harvard in 1850, and in his freshman year was induced to pay special attention to physical training by ridicule of his weakness and small stature.
Out of his experiments has grown the modern system of health-lifting; but he carried them too far, and was attacked by a paralytic affection, which resulted in his death.
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 William George Barker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Willliam Barker enlisted in the First Canadian Mounted Rifles in December, 1914 and arrived in England the following summer.
Barker traveled to England to earn his wings and after doing so, returned to France.
Barker also helped found the Royal Canadian Air Force and started one of Canada's first commercial air services with W.A. Bishop.
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 George Barker :: Profile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
George Barker received his undergraduate degree from University of Chattanooga, a Masters of Divinity from Louisville Presbyterian Seminary, an M.A. in history from Ball State University and his Ph.D. from Purdue University.
He is an associate professor of philosophy with a specialty in the history of philosophy.
Barker teaches Ancient and Modern Philosophy, American Philosophy, Introduction to Philosophy, and Religions in American Culture.
www.bsu.edu /philosophy/profile/0,1391,2313-499-13599,00.html   (71 words)

  
 George Barker (poet) - Encyclopedia, History and Biography
George Barker (poet) - Encyclopedia, History and Biography
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The article about George Barker (poet) contains information related to George Barker (poet) and References.
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 The PIR-International Protein Sequence Database - George, Barker, Mewes, Pfeiffer, Tsugita (ResearchIndex)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Abstract: From its origin the Protein Information Resource (http://www-nbrf.georgetown.edu/pir/) has supported research on evolution and computational biology by designing and compiling a comprehensive, quality controlled, and well-organized protein sequence database.
George, D. G., Barker, W. C., Mewes, H. W., Pfeiffer, F. & Tsugita, A. The PIR-International protein sequence database.
3 and George (context) - Barker, Pfeiffer - 1995
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