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- English Benedictine monk who was an important writer on ascetic and mystical theology. [1 Related Articles]
- Baker, Carlos
- American teacher, novelist, and critic known for his definitive biographies of Ernest Hemingway and Percy Bysshe Shelley.
- Baker, Chet
- American jazz trumpeter and vocalist noted for the plaintive, fragile tone of both his playing and singing. He was a cult figure whose well-publicized struggles with drug addiction curtailed a promising career.
- Baker, Dame Janet
- English operatic mezzo-soprano, known for her vocal expression, stage presence, and effective diction. As a recitalist she was noted for her interpretations of the works of Gustav Mahler, Sir Edward Elgar, and Johann Sebastian Bach.
- Baker, Ella
- American community organizer and political activist who brought her skills and principles to bear in the major civil rights organizations of the mid-20th century.
- Baker, Etta Lucille Reid
- American folk musician (b. March 31, 1913, Caldwell county, N.C.-d. Sept. 23, 2006, Fairfax, Va.), played banjo and guitar and influenced the folk music revival of the 1950s and '60s with her blend of Piedmont blues and bluegrass. Baker, a ...
- Baker, Florence
- (from the article "Speke, John Hanning") ...course, but an outbreak of tribal warfare required them to change their route. In February 1863 they reached Gondokoro in the southern Sudan, where they met the Nile explorers Samuel Baker and Florence von Sass (who later became Baker's wife). ...
- Baker, Gene
- (from the article "baseball") By that time acceptance of black players was commonplace. However, inclusion of minorities in coaching and administrative positions was virtually nonexistent. In 1961 Gene Baker became the first African American to manage a minor league team, and in the mid-1960s ...
- Baker, George Fisher
- American financier, bank president, and philanthropist who endowed the Graduate School of Business Administration at Harvard.
- Baker, George Pierce
- American teacher of some of the most notable American dramatists, among them Eugene O'Neill, Philip Barry, Sidney Howard, and S.N. Behrman. Emphasizing creative individuality and practical construction (he guided students' plays through workshop performances), Baker fostered an imaginative realism. The ... [1 Related Articles]
- Baker, Houston A., Jr.
- American educator and critic who proposed new standards, based on African American culture and values, for the interpretation and evaluation of literature.
- Baker, Howard
- (from the article "Thompson, Fred") ...on those of Ronald Reagan, who was then governor of California. In 1969 he was named assistant U.S. attorney, though he left that position in 1972 to serve as the campaign manager for U.S. Sen. Howard Baker's successful reelection bid. ...
- Baker, James Addison, III
- American government official, political manager, and lawyer who occupied important posts in the Republican presidential administrations of the 1980s and early '90s, including that of U.S. secretary of state (1989-92). [5 Related Articles]
- Baker, Josephine
- American-born French dancer and singer who symbolized the beauty and vitality of black American culture, which took Paris by storm in the 1920s.
- Baker, LaFayette Curry
- chief of the U.S. Federal Detective Police during the American Civil War and director of Union intelligence and counterintelligence operations.
- Baker, LaVern
- American rhythm-and-blues singer notable for her vocal power and rhythmic energy. [1 Related Articles]
- Baker, Michael
- (from the article "bridge") In 1977 the New River Gorge Bridge, the world's longest-spanning steel arch, was completed in Fayette county, West Virginia, U.S. Designed by Michael Baker, the two-hinged arch truss carries four lanes of traffic 263 metres (876 feet) above the river ...
- Baker, Mount
- (from the article "Major volcanoes of the world") ...[4,392 m], highest in Washington and in the Cascade Range). Most of the summits are extinct volcanoes, but Lassen Peak (10,457 feet [3,187 m]) and several others have erupted in the recent past. Mount Baker (10,778 feet [3,285 m]) steamed ...
- Baker, Newton D
- lawyer, political leader, and U.S. secretary of war during World War I.
- Baker, Nicholson
- (from the article "United States") ...including the Chinese American Amy Tan. A new freedom to write about human erotic experience previously considered strange or even deviant shaped much new writing, from the comic obsessive novels of Nicholson Baker through the work of those short-story writers ...
- Baker, Ray Stannard
- American journalist, popular essayist, literary crusader for the League of Nations, and authorized biographer of Woodrow Wilson.
- Baker, Reginald
- (from the article "Ealing Studios") ...internationally remembered for a series of witty comedies that reflected the social conditions of post-World War II Britain. Founded in 1929 by two of England's best known producers, Basil Dean and Reginald Baker, with the financial support of the Courtauld ...
- Baker, Russell
- American newspaper columnist, author, humorist, and political satirist, who used good-natured humour to comment slyly and trenchantly on a wide range of social and political matters.
- Baker, Samuel
- (from the article "Sotheby's") The founder, Samuel Baker (died 1778), a London bookseller, held his first auction (under his own name) early in 1744, selling an estate library of 457 books. Establishing the firm in York Street and handling further libraries over the years, ...
- Baker, Sara Josephine
- American physician who contributed significantly to public health and child welfare in the United States.
- Baker, Shirley
- (from the article "Tonga, flag of") When King George Tupou I came to the throne, he relied heavily on an Englishman, Shirley W. Baker, for advice regarding a new flag, which was first hoisted in 1866 and codified in the constitution of November 4, 1875. Like ...
- Baker, Sir Benjamin
- English civil engineer and the chief designer of the railway bridge over the Firth of Forth, Scotland. [2 Related Articles]
- Baker, Sir Richard
- British writer and author of A Chronicle of the Kings of England. [1 Related Articles]
- Baker, Sir Samuel White
- English explorer who, with John Hanning Speke, helped to locate the sources of the Nile River. [7 Related Articles]
- Baker, Thane
- (from the article "Morrow, Bobby Joe") At the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, Morrow went through the 100-metres series without losing a race, pulling away from American Thane Baker in the final. Despite running with a bandaged thigh in the 200-metre dash, Morrow set an Olympic record ...
- Baker, Theodore
- American music scholar and lexicographer. [1 Related Articles]
- Bakersfield
- city, seat (1875) of Kern county, south-central California, U.S. Located in the San Joaquin Valley, it was founded along the Los Angeles and Stockton road in 1869 by Thomas Baker, who reclaimed swamplands along the nearby Kern River. Bakersfield was ...
- bakery product
- (from the article "baking") process of cooking by dry heat, especially in some kind of oven. It is probably the oldest cooking method. Bakery products, which include bread, rolls, cookies, pies, pastries, and muffins, are usually prepared from flour or meal derived from some ...
- Bakewell glass
- glassware produced at the factory completed in 1808 in Pittsburgh, Pa., U.S., by Benjamin Bakewell, an Englishman from Derby who became known as the father of the flint-glass industry in the United States. The Pittsburgh Flint Glass Manufactory, then Bakewell ... [1 Related Articles]
- Bakewell, Benjamin
- (from the article "Bakewell glass") glassware produced at the factory completed in 1808 in Pittsburgh, Pa., U.S., by Benjamin Bakewell, an Englishman from Derby who became known as the father of the flint-glass industry in the United States. The Pittsburgh Flint Glass Manufactory, then Bakewell ...
- Bakewell, John P.
- (from the article "pressed glass") ...mold before it solidified and thereby made it possible for them to shape the glass into intricate forms with elaborate designs. The first commercial glass-pressing machine was developed in 1825 by John P. Bakewell of the United States. The invention ...
- Bakewell, Robert
- agriculturist who revolutionized sheep and cattle breeding in England by methodical selection, inbreeding, and culling. [1 Related Articles]
- Bakfark, Balint
- lutenist and composer who was the first Hungarian musician to attain a European reputation.
- Bakh, Aleksey Nikolayevich
- (from the article "Oparin, Aleksandr") In his postdoctoral days Oparin was influenced also by A.N. Bakh, a botanist. Bakh left Russia at the time of the Revolution but later returned. Despite the financial difficulties of the times, the Soviet government established a biochemical institute in ...
- Bakhchysaray
- city, southern Crimea, Ukraine, on the Simferopol-Sevastopol railway. Before passing to Russia in 1783, it was the capital of the Crimean khanate. The city has many buildings of historical and architectural interest, including the palace of the Tatar khans built ... [1 Related Articles]
- Bakheng
- (from the article "Southeast Asian arts") ...Around the base of the terraced pyramid stood eight large shrines inside the main enclosure, with a series of moats, causeways, and auxiliary sculptures guarding the approaches to the exterior. The Bakheng, begun in 893, had an enormous series of ...
- Bakhit, Marouf al-
- (from the article "Jordan") ...Palestinian refugees, most of whom hold Jordanian citizenship; excluding 800,000 Iraqi refugees) | Capital: Amman | Head of state and government: King Abdullah II, assisted by Prime Minister Marouf al-Bakhit | BRITANNICA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2007Jordan
- Bakhma Dam
- (from the article "Tigris-Euphrates river system") ...between the left-bank junctions with the Great Zab and Little Zab rivers. During flood time, in March and April, the two Zabs double the volume of the Tigris, but their flow is controlled by the Bakhma and Dukan dams. The ...
- Bakhmanyar, Abul Hasan
- (from the article "Azerbaijan") In the course of its long history, Azerbaijan has given the world a number of outstanding thinkers, poets, and scientists. Among the medieval scientists and philosophers, Abul Hasan Bakhmanyar (11th century), the author of numerous works on mathematics and philosophy, ...
- Bakhrushin, S. V.
- (from the article "Siberian Chronicles") ...the chronicles have long been a focus of historians' debate, for they are indeed complex and contradictory. The traditional-but not wholly accepted-hypothesis, proposed by historian S.V. Bakhrushin (1882-1950), is that the chronicles ultimately derive from a now-lost work, Napisany, kako ...
- Bakhshali manuscript
- (from the article "mathematics, South Asian") ...than their verbal content, because the treatises survive only in copies dating from much later times and reflecting later scribal conventions. There is a striking exception, however, in the Bakhshali manuscript, found in 1881 by a farmer in his field ...
- Bakht Khan
- commander in chief of rebel forces in the early stages of the anti-British Indian Mutiny (1857).
- Bakhtiar, Shahpur
- Iranian politician, the last prime minister (Jan. 4-Feb. 11, 1979) under Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi. [1 Related Articles]
- Bakhtiari rug
- handwoven pile floor covering made under Bakhtyari patronage in certain villages southwest of Esfahan in central Iran. Bakhtiari rugs are symmetrically knotted on a foundation of cotton.
- Bakhtiari, Marjaneh
- (from the article "Literature") ...in sitcom-inspired depictions of social relations was a technique successfully used in first novels by the ethnic Pole Zbigniew Kuklartz in Hjalp jag heter Zbigniew and Iranian-born Marjaneh Bakhtiari in Kalla det vad fan du vill. In Bakhtiari's novel the ...
- Bakhtin, Mikhail
- Russian literary theorist and philosopher of language whose wide-ranging ideas significantly influenced Western thinking in cultural history, linguistics, literary theory, and aesthetics. [2 Related Articles]
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