( After a May Bluesbreakers gig at which Baker had sat in, he and Clapton had first discussed forming their own band, and surreptitious rehearsal jams with Bruce soon commenced.

Baker played third base for the Athletics until, when he sat out the entire season in a contract dispute with Connie Mack.

He sat with the Master of the Rolls, Lord Donaldson of Lymington, in M v Home Office, finding Home Secretary Kenneth Baker guilty of contempt of court after he refused to bring an asylum seeker back from Zaire, where he had been deported contrary to an earlier court order.

The Phillies ' Baker Bowl sat only 20, 000 and William Baker refused to allocate additional tickets for visiting fans.

Lincoln sat against a tree on the northeast White House lawn, while Baker lay on the ground with his hands behind his head.

Jenny Eclair sat in for Danny Baker on BBC London 94. 9 from Tuesday 30 August until Friday 2 September 2011.

) Peter Kay revealed that Toni Baker and The Band did the real music, sat behind a curtain on set.

On entering the execution chamber, Baker sat in the electric chair and said, " What I done, I did in self-defense, or I would have been killed myself.

But he was happy to tell her that his finances were now in such condition that he could go back to Harvard for a third year with Professor Baker.

That fall he submitted to Professor Baker the first acts and outlines of the following acts of several plays, six of them, according to some of his associates, and he also worked on a play that he first called Niggertown, the material for which he had collected during the summer at home.

In describing it to Professor Baker after it had been chosen for production, he defended his great array of characters by declaring that he had included that many not because `` I didn't know how to save paint '', but because the play required them.

Baker gave Leonard Wood credit for the initiation of the draft of soldiers ; ;

It was Baker, working through Provost Marshal Enoch Crowder and Major Hugh S. ( `` Old Ironpants '' ) Johnson, who arranged for a secret printing by the million of selective service blanks -- again before the Act was passed -- until corridors in the Government Printing Office were full and the basement of the Washington Post Office was stacked to the ceiling.

it was Baker who thought of lessening the shock, which conscription always brings to a country, by substituting `` Greetings from your neighbors '' for the recruiting sergeant, and registration in familiar voting places rather than at military installations.

Both Secretary of War Baker and Secretary of Navy Daniels devoted much time and effort to the problem of providing reasonably normal and wholesome activities in camp for the millions of men who had been removed from their home environment.

When the United States entered the First World War Baker made certain that the Draft Act of 1917 prohibited the sale of liquor to men in uniform and that it provided for broad zones around the camps in which prostitution was outlawed.

Affirmatively Baker worked on the premise that `` young men spontaneously prefer to be decent, and that opportunities for wholesome recreation are the best possible cure for irregularities in conduct which arise from idleness and the baser temptations ''.

Daniel Baker deluged his `` Unckle Quyne '' with requests to pay money for him to drapers in Watling Street and at the Two Cats in Canning Street.

Baker wrote: `` I tooke order with Sr. E. Grevile for the payment of Ceartaine monei beefore his going towardes London.

Baker added: `` I pray you delivre these inclosed Letters And Comend mee to Mr. Rychard Mytton whoe I know will ffreind mee for the payment of this monei ''.

Cecil Mason of Hartford, Conn., was best man for his brother, and groomsmen were Rhodes S. Baker 3, of Houston, Dr. James Carter of Houston and Conrad McEachern of New Orleans, La..

Advisors for the `` national champion '' company were John K. Morgan, William H. Baker, Leonard Breuer and William F. Stephenson, all of Georgia-Pacific Corp..

** International Air Transport Association for Baker Army Air Field ( abandoned ), Baker Island, United States Minor Outlying Islands

( The name is journalistic slang for a sub-editor ; the broadcaster Danny Baker has appropriated it as his Twitter name.

: In the 2006 edition of The World Factbook, the entries for Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Kingman Reef, Johnston Atoll, Palmyra Atoll and the Midway Islands were merged into a new United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges entry.

The Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity is housed in an 11-story structure originally built for The Christian Science Publishing Society constructed between 1932 and 1934, and the present plaza was constructed in the late 1960s and early 1970s to include a 28 story administration building, a colonnade, and a reflecting pool with fountain, designed by Araldo Cossutta of I. M. Pei and Partners ( now Pei Cobb Freed ).

... Baker Eddy has organized and made available a healing principle that for two thousand years has never been employed, except as the merest kind of guesswork.

* The Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity

In the offseason they signed Alfonso Soriano to the richest contract in Cubs history at 8 years for $ 136 million, and replaced unpopular skipper Dusty Baker with fiery veteran manager Lou Piniella.

When Brubeck signed with Fantasy Records, he thought he had a half interest in the company and he worked as a sort of A & R man for it, encouraging the Weiss brothers to sign other contemporary jazz performers, including Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker, and Red Norvo.

Baker formed and recorded with Ginger Baker's Energy and was involved in collaborations with Bill Laswell, jazz bassist Charlie Haden, jazz guitarist Bill Frisell, and pioneering afro beat musician Fela Kuti.

( Fela Kuti album ) ( 1971 )' Fela also appeared with Ginger Baker on Stratavarious ( 1972 ) alongside Bobby Gass, a pseudonym for Bobby Tench from The Jeff Beck Group.

The 2012 Big Finish Productions Doctor Who audio play The Wrath of the Iceni starring Tom Baker takes place during Boudica's uprising against the Romans.

Desmond recorded the tune " Summertime " along with many others during his time with Chet Baker.

In The Importance of Being Earnest ( 1952 ), Dame Edith Evans reprised her celebrated interpretation of Lady Bracknell ; The Importance of Being Earnest ( 1992 ) by Kurt Baker used an all-black cast ; and Oliver Parker's The Importance of Being Earnest ( 2002 ) incorporated some material cut during the preparation of the original stage production.

In 2003, the UN's envoy to the territory, James Baker, presented the Baker Plan, known as Baker II which would have given Western Sahara immediate autonomy as the Western Sahara Authority during a five-year transition period to prepare for a referendum, offering the inhabitants of the territory a choice between independence, autonomy within the Kingdom of Morocco, or complete integration with Morocco.

** Nuclear testing: In the first underwater test of the atomic bomb, the surplus USS Saratoga is sunk near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, when the United States detonates the Baker device during Operation Crossroads.

Gardner wrote, " The game was taught to Baker by his father, who in turn learned it from an Englishman during the 1920's.

Equipment during these years had also improved ; new Marshall amplifier stacks cranked out more power, and Jack Bruce pushed the volume levels higher, creating tension for Baker who would have trouble competing with roaring stacks.

Clapton spoke of a concert during which he stopped playing and neither Baker nor Bruce noticed.

* Lafayette C. Baker ( 1826-1868 ), American investigator and Union spy during the American Civil War ; promoted to brigadier general for his part in apprehending Lincoln's assassins

* Arthur Baker-Art Baker is one of the first Walkers to befriend Garraty during the Long Walk and is also one of the Musketeers.

George Baker during World War II

The solution was now a new branch of the Bakerloo line from Baker Street to serve St John's Wood and Swiss Cottage, thereby rendering the existing stations of Lord's, Marlborough Road and Swiss Cottage on the parallel route redundant, and negating the need for the Met's extension from Edgware Road station ( it should be noted, however, that Swiss Cottage ( Metropolitan ) was proposed to remain open during peak hours for interchange with the Bakerloo, and that Lord's station would further open for special cricketing events.

Big Finish has announced that Mary Tamm will reprise the role of Romana alongside Tom Baker for a second series of original audio dramas ( the first series having featured Leela ) set during the Key to Time era ; the first of these are scheduled for release in late 2012-early 2013.

He attended Harvard Graduate School of Design under Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer on a scholarship in 1945-46, during which time he did vacation work with Alvar Aalto in Boston drawing up plans for the Baker dormitory at MIT.

On State Route 37 there is one K-12 School Building for the Baker County School System named Baker County Elementary / Middle School in 2001 as for the Old Building of school that housed the students near the Courthouse was built in the late 1960s and named East Baker School for local Black's during segregation ( now used for East Baker Historical Society & 21st Century Community Corporation, Inc .).

* Sean Baker, a military policeman who was injured during training at Guantanamo — without his military superiors being held accountable.

Baker experienced an influx of New Orleans residents during the immediate aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

Quietly entering the church, he walked to the Baker pew and stood beside Mary during the hymn singing, after which he yielded without resistance into legal custody.

But disaster struck on August 6, 1856, when dams on the Upper and Lower Baker ponds in Orford breached during a flood, releasing a wall of water down Pond Brook to the Baker River.