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# 1939 College Football All Polish-American Team

The 1939 College Football All Polish-American Team was the first all-star College Football Team of Polish-Americans. The team was selected by five American sport scribes from leading American newspapers. All members were of Polish descent.

## First team

| Name | Position | School |
| Walt Nowak | Left End | Villanova |
| Ted Konetsky | Left Tackle | Pittsburgh |
| Ed Molinski | Left Guard | Tennessee |
| Rudy Mucha | Center | Washington |
| Frank Bykowski | Right Guard | Purdue |
| Walt Walewski | Right Tackle | Holy Cross |
| Ed Rucinski | Right End | Indiana |
| Steve Sitko | Quarterback | Notre Dame |
| Bill Krywicki | Left Halfback | Fordham |
| Forest Evashevski | Right Halfback | Michigan |
| John Polanski | Full Back | Wake Forest |
# Puerto Rico at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Puerto Rico competed at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Canada.
The country sent nine representatives (eight men and one woman) to the Games; they competed in three sports.

## Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.
| Sport | Men | Women | Total |
| Alpine skiing | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| Biathlon | 1 | – | 1 |
| Luge | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Total | 8 | 1 | 9 |

## Alpine skiing

| Athlete | Event | Run 1 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Jason Edelmann | Men's super-G | — | — | — | — | 2:09.93 | 52 |
| Jason Edelmann | Men's giant slalom | DNF | DNF | DNF | DNF | DNF | DNF |
| Jason Edelmann | Men's slalom | 1:48.34 | | 1:10.38 | | 2:58.72 | 52 |
| Félix Flechas | Men's super-G | — | — | — | — | DNF | DNF |
| Félix Flechas | Men's giant slalom | 1:38.01 | | 1:34.99 | | 3:13.00 | 67 |
| Walter Sandza | Men's super-G | — | — | — | — | 2:25.95 | 56 |
| Walter Sandza | Men's giant slalom | 1:35.34 | | 1:33.43 | | 3:08.77 | 66 |
| Jorge Torrella | Men's slalom | DNF | DNF | DNF | DNF | DNF | DNF |
| Kevin Wilson | Men's super-G | — | — | — | — | DNF | DNF |
| Kevin Wilson | Men's giant slalom | 1:26.31 | | 1:22.88 | | 2:49.19 | 61 |
| Kevin Wilson | Men's slalom | 1:21.73 | | 1:13.45 | | 2:35.18 | 43 |
| Mary Pat Wilson | Women's giant slalom | DSQ | DSQ | DSQ | DSQ | DSQ | DSQ |
| Mary Pat Wilson | Women's slalom | DNF | DNF | DNF | DNF | DNF | DNF |

## Biathlon

| Athlete | Event | Time | Misses | Rank |
| Elliot Archilla | Sprint | 47:47.4 | 6 | 72 |
| Elliot Archilla | Individual | 1'51:57.6 | 13 | 68 |

## Luge

| Athlete | Event | Run 1 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Run 4 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| George Tucker | Men's singles | 50.748 | 36 | 50.249 | 34 | 51.688 | 33 | 54.440 | 36 | 3:27.125 | 34 |
| Raúl Muñiz | Men's singles | 50.184 | 35 | 49.849 | 33 | 50.480 | 32 | 50.449 | 33 | 3:20.962 | 31 |
# 1943 Cornell Big Red football team

The 1943 Cornell Big Red football team was an American football team that represented Cornell University as an independent during the 1943 college football season. In its eighth season under head coach Carl Snavely, the team compiled a 6–4 record and outscored opponents 158–138. The team captain was Meredith "Bud" Cushing.
In the final Litkenhous Ratings, Cornell ranked 57th among the nation's college and service teams with a rating of 81.7.
Cornell played its home games at Schoellkopf Field in Ithaca, New York.

## Schedule

| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance |
| September 18 | Bucknell | Schoellkopf FieldIthaca, NY | W 7–6 | 5,000 |
| September 25 | Sampson NTS | Schoellkopf FieldIthaca, NY | W 27–13 | 6,000 |
| October 2 | vs. Navy | Memorial StadiumBaltimore, MD | L 7–46 | 32,546 |
| October 30 | at Princeton | Palmer StadiumPrinceton, NJ | W 30–0 | 5,000 |
| October 16 | Holy Cross | Schoellkopf FieldIthaca, NY | W 20–7 | 5,000 |
| October 23 | vs. Colgate | Archbold StadiumSyracuse, NY (rivalry) | L 7–20 | |
| October 30 | Columbia | Schoellkopf FieldIthaca, NY (rivalry) | W 33–6 | 3,500 |
| November 6 | Penn State | Schoellkopf FieldIthaca, NY | W 13–0 | 6,617 |
| November 13 | vs. No. 18 Dartmouth | Fenway ParkBoston, MA (rivalry) | L 0–20 | 23,000 |
| November 25 | at No. 18 Penn | Franklin FieldPhiladelphia, PA (rivalry) | L 14–20 | 60,000 |
| Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game ||||||
# 1941–42 Allsvenskan

Statistics of Allsvenskan in season 1941/1942.

## Overview

The league was contested by 12 teams, with IFK Göteborg winning the championship.

## League table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | IFK Göteborg (C) | 22 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 48 | 29 | +19 | 31 | |
| 2 | GAIS | 22 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 46 | 31 | +15 | 27 | |
| 3 | IFK Norrköping | 22 | 12 | 2 | 8 | 50 | 35 | +15 | 26 | |
| 4 | Hälsingborgs IF | 22 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 42 | 27 | +15 | 26 | |
| 5 | Malmö FF | 22 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 37 | 33 | +4 | 25 | |
| 6 | Degerfors IF | 22 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 43 | 35 | +8 | 23 | |
| 7 | IF Elfsborg | 22 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 35 | 29 | +6 | 22 | |
| 8 | Gårda | 22 | 9 | 4 | 9 | 34 | 46 | −12 | 22 | |
| 9 | AIK | 22 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 37 | 34 | +3 | 21 | |
| 10 | Sandvikens IF | 22 | 6 | 3 | 13 | 27 | 45 | −18 | 15 | |
| 11 | Landskrona BoIS (R) | 22 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 22 | 47 | −25 | 14 | Relegation to Division 2 |
| 12 | Reymersholm (R) | 22 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 27 | 57 | −30 | 12 | Relegation to Division 2 |

## Results

| Home \ Away | AIK | DIF | GAIS | GBK | HIF | IFE | IFKG | IFKN | BOIS | MFF | RIK | SIF |
| AIK | | 0–1 | 2–2 | 4–2 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 2–3 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 4–1 | 2–1 |
| Degerfors IF | 2–2 | | 1–1 | 4–2 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 4–1 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 1–3 | 2–2 | 8–0 |
| GAIS | 2–2 | 1–1 | | 4–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 5–2 | 6–3 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 3–1 |
| Gårda BK | 2–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–6 | 1–4 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 1–0 |
| Hälsingborgs IF | 1–1 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 6–0 | | 4–1 | 2–1 | 3–2 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 2–0 |
| IF Elfsborg | 1–0 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 2–3 | 2–3 | | 1–1 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 4–0 | 6–1 | 1–2 |
| IFK Göteborg | 3–2 | 3–2 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | | 2–1 | 4–0 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 2–0 |
| IFK Norrköping | 4–1 | 3–1 | 1–3 | 3–2 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 4–1 | | 5–1 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 2–2 |
| Landskrona BoIS | 1–1 | 3–4 | 0–3 | 1–4 | 1–3 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 1–2 | | 3–2 | 3–1 | 1–0 |
| Malmö FF | 0–3 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 4–1 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | | 2–2 | 2–3 |
| Reymersholms IK | 1–3 | 3–2 | 1–2 | 2–3 | 0–3 | 0–2 | 2–2 | 1–5 | 2–0 | 0–4 | | 3–1 |
| Sandvikens IF | 3–1 | 3–1 | 2–3 | 1–1 | 1–4 | 0–0 | 1–4 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 2–3 | 3–0 | |
# Robert Knights

Robert Knights (born 1942 in England) is a British film and television director, perhaps best known for his film The Dawning, about the Irish War of Independence.
He has been nominated for three BAFTA TV Awards and he won the Montréal World Film Festival Jury Prize for The Dawning.
Also the International Emmy in New York for 'Porterhouse Blue' (Channel 4) starring David Jason (BAFTA Best Actor Award), and Christopher Gunning (BAFTA Best Music).

## Selected filmography and television credits

* The Glittering Prizes (1976)
* The History Man (1981)
* The Ebony Tower (1984)
* Porterhouse Blue (1987)
* The Dawning (1988)
* Double Vision (1992)
* The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous (1997)
* A Touch of Frost (1999–2000)
* Waking the Dead (2001)
* Monarch of the Glen (2002–2004)
* Casualty (2007–2008)
* The Bill (2002–2009)
# Roberto Pizarro Hofer

Roberto Guillermo Pizarro Hofer (born 9 October 1944) is a Chilean politician who served as minister of State and as head of the Academy of Christian Humanism University. He also was head of the La Nación newspaper.
# 1941–42 1re série season

The 1941–42 1re série season was the 25th season of the 1re série, the top level of ice hockey in France. Chamonix Hockey Club won their ninth championship.

## Final

* Chamonix Hockey Club - Français Volants 7:1
# Robert Tillmanns

Robert Tillmanns (April 5, 1896 in Barmen – November 12, 1955 in Berlin) was a German politician.
From 1953 to 1955 he was Federal Minister for Special Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany.

## Life and work

After the Abitur in 1914, Tillmanns took part as a soldier in the First World War. He studied political science from 1919 to 1921, earning a doctorate at the University of Tübingen. From 1922 to 1930 he served as head of economics at the German National Association for Student Services and in 1925 operated under the umbrella of the German National Academic Foundation. From 1931 he worked as a council member in the Prussian Ministry of Culture, from which he was dismissed for political reasons in 1933. He then worked until 1945 in mining industry management in central Germany. After the war he was Secretary General of the Agency of the Evangelical Church in Germany until 1949. Tillmanns was married to since 1925 Naegelsbach Herta (1904–1995) and had three daughters.

## Politics

After the Second World War Tillmanns, together with Jakob Kaiser and Ernst Lemmer, founded the CDU in Berlin and the Soviet occupation zone. From 1949 to 1952 he was first the deputy chairman and from 26 April 1952 until his death chairman of the CDU in Berlin. From 1950 he was a member of the National board of the CDU and the deputy national chairman from 1955. In 1952 he help found the Evangelical Working Group of the CDU/CSU, and was its National Chairman since 1954.

## Parliamentary membership

From 1946 to 1947 he was member of the state parliament of Saxony. From 1949 until his death he was Berlin's deputy member of the German Bundestag .

## Public offices

After the elections in 1953, Tillmanns was appointed on 20 October the Federal Minister for Special Affairs in the Federal Government led by the Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, and during his tenure was a member of the "Cabinet of Elders" in the Bundestag. He is one of the few federal ministers who have died in office.
# Roberto Ghiglianovich

Roberto Ghiglianovich (17 July 1863 – 2 September 1930) was a Dalmatian Italian politician.

## Biography

He was grown up in a liberal family in Zara, Austria-Hungary (today Zadar, Croatia). As a child, two of his greatest friends were the Croat Petar Klaić and the Serb Dušan Baljak. Their friendship was so strong that it made him want to learn the Serbo-Croatian language.
He studied law in Graz and Vienna. During his time in Austria, and with the influence of other Dalmatian Italians from the province irredente, he started to develop nationalistic feelings. Upon his return to Zadar, as a lawyer, he began to endeavor in politics ever more.
Although he was open to make some concessions to the Slavs, Ghiglianovich endeavored to get at least Zara annexed to Italy. He endeavored against the "process of discrimination actuated by the municipalities in Croatian hands," thus attempting to preserve the Italian language in schools and in the public administration.
Upon Italy's entry in World War I, he escaped from Austria to Rome, where he was chosen, at the end of the war, member of the Italian delegation to the Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920), as an aggregate in the marine section, as a legal expert for Dalmatia.
Ghiglianovich, who became judge at the Supreme Court of Cassation, was then nominated Senator of the Kingdom of Italy on November 15, 1920.
In the 1920s, he got sick and retired in his hometown Zara (present-day Zadar). He died in Gorizia on September 2, 1930.
# Robert Paterson (Scottish architect)

Robert Paterson (1825–1889) was a 19th-century Scottish architect. His most famous work is the Cafe Royal in Edinburgh. Almost all his works are in Edinburgh, mainly in the Scots Baronial style, including a number of churches for the United Presbyterian Church.

## Life

He was born at 13 Richmond Place in south Edinburgh the son of Robert Paterson (1790–1846), a builder, architect and surveyor in Edinburgh, and his wife Margaret (1789–1867).
In 1839/40 he was articled to George Beattie (born 1810) (father of William Hamilton Beattie builders and wood merchants at 23 Bread Street. His family was then living at 138 Causewayside. From 1850 he was living at practising from Madeira Cottage at 187 Causewayside, close to his family home.
From 1860 onwards he had offices at 6 Hanover Street in Edinburgh's First New Town, moving to 10 Hanover Street around 1870, and is later described as both architect and city assessor (valuing property under the Valuation of Lands Act).
He was Session Clerk to the United Presbyterian Church in Newington.
He died at 47 Grange Road on 5 October 1889 and is buried nearby in the Grange Cemetery.

## Works

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* 97-103 High Street on the Royal Mile (1862) incorporating the sculpted head of a boy by John Rhind
* Cafe Royal, Edinburgh (1863)
* Morningside United Presbyterian Church (1864)
* Newington United Presbyterian Church (1864) Grange Road/Causewayside (generally called Salisbury Church)
* Saltcoats West UP Church (1866)
* West wing, Edinburgh Royal lunatic asylum (1867)
* Canongate UP Church (1869)
* Southern Literary Institute (1870)
* Tenement in Leith (1873) Great Junction Street?
* Enlargement of Hamilton Prison (1876)
* Portobello Cemetery and entrance lodge (1876)
* Portobello Police Station (1877)
* Tenement in Portobello (1877)
* Canongate Christian Institute (1878)
* Tenements, Queen Charlotte Street, Leith (1878)
* Windsor Hotel, 100 Princes Street (1878)
* Villa, 6 Strathearn Road (1880) extension and alteration
* 6 to 8 Shandwick Place (1880)
* Tenement 147-151 Warrender Park Road (1881)
* Tenement Leslie Place/Carlton Street, Canonmills (1881)
* Villa, 5 Chalmers Crescent for Thomas Landale (1884)
* Villa, 59 Dick Place (1885)
* Shop, 130 Princes Street (1886)
* Warrender Baths (1886)

## Family

In 1848 he married Margaret Wyllie. Their eldest son Robert (born 1850) was also an architect.
He was cousin to the architect Robert Hamilton Paterson.
# Robert Wallace Wilkins

Robert Wallace Wilkins (December 4, 1906 – April 9, 2003) was an American medical investigator and educator. He made many contributions in the research of hypertension and cardiovascular disease. He was the president of the American Heart Association in 1957 and received its Gold Heart Award in 1962. Wilkins received the Albert Lasker Award in 1958 for his research.
He has been credited with introducing the antipsychotic and antihypertensive drug reserpine to the United States in 1950.

## Early life and education

Wilkins was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1906. After earning his undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina, he coached football and track in Greensboro, North Carolina.
He enrolled in medical school at Chapel Hill but transferred to Harvard Medical School, where he graduated at the top of his class in 1933. Afterward, he completed an internship, a residency, and research training at Boston City Hospital's Harvard Service and the Thorndike Memorial Laboratories. He went on to study the autonomic nervous system during a fellowship in London.

## Career

In 1938, Wilkins became a faculty member at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he studied the circulatory system. His work on circulation, blood pressure, and the body's responses led to his election to the American Society of Clinical Investigation and a new role at the Boston University School of Medicine.
In the 1940s, Wilkins aided the U.S. effort in World War II by developing one of the first G-suits, which fighter pilots and paratroopers used in combat. In 1947, the U.S. Navy and War Department honored Wilkins for the project.

### Rauwolfia

Wilkins' most noteworthy accomplishment may be his work to deploy the herbal medicine rauwolfia in Western clinical settings. Rauwolfia, or the dried Indian snakeroot, had been used to treat mental health conditions, fever, and snake bites in India for hundreds of years. In the early 1950s, Wilkins began using the root to treat patients with hypertension. His work suggested the medication was "effective in lowering both pulse and blood pressure." The investigation included clinical trials for the antipsychotic drug reserpine, a purer derivative of rauwolfia, for the treatment of hypertension. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the use in 1955.
# Robert Skinner (bishop)

Robert Skinner (10 February 1591 – 14 June 1670) was an English bishop who served consecutively as Bishop of Bristol, Bishop of Oxford, and Bishop of Worcester.

## Life

He was born on 10 February 1591, the second son of Edmund Skinner, rector of Pitsford, Northamptonshire, and Bridget, daughter of Humphrey Radcliff of Warwickshire. After attending Brixworth grammar school, he was admitted scholar of Trinity College, Oxford in 1607. He graduated B.A. in 1610, and M.A. in 1614. In 1613, he was elected fellow of his college, and until his death interested himself in its welfare. He proceeded B.D. in 1621, and became preacher of St Gregory's Church, near St Paul's Cathedral. In 1628, he succeeded his father as rector of Pitsford, and shortly after was chosen by Laud to be chaplain-in-ordinary to the king. He was vicar of Launton from 1632.
In 1634, Oxford University granted him a D.D. at the request of William Laud, without the formalities, a move criticized by John Prideaux. He was diplomated or actually created as such on 14 August 1636. In the 1630s, Skinner was known for his sermons before Charles I asserting Arminian doctrines. In 1636, he became bishop of Bristol and rector of Greens Norton, Northamptonshire. He retained the living of Launton, to which were soon added those of Cuddesdon, Oxfordshire, and Beckenham, Kent. In Bristol, he was active in preaching against Calvinism.
In 1641, he was translated to become Bishop of Oxford. He was one of the bishops who subscribed the protest of 17 December 1641, declaring themselves prevented from attendance in Parliament, and was consequently committed by the lords to the Tower, where he remained eighteen weeks. Released on bail, he resided at Launton. In 1643, he was deprived of Greens Norton "for his malignity against the parliament." He was deprived of his see by Parliament on 9 October 1646, as episcopacy was abolished for the duration of the Commonwealth and the Protectorate. He was also sequestered from his livings of Cuddesden in 1646 and Beckenham in 1647. During the Commonwealth, he secured a licence to preach, and continued in his diocese. He also conferred holy orders throughout England. It is stated by Thomas Warton, in his Life of R. Bathurst (p. 35), that Ralph Bathurst secretly examined the candidates, and officiated at Launton as archdeacon.
At the Stuart Restoration, he became one of the king's commissioners of the University of Oxford, and in 1663 was translated to Worcester. He died on 14 June 1670 and is buried in a chapel at the east end of the choir of Worcester Cathedral. At the head of the inscribed stone, which is now in the crypt, is the arms of the family impaled with those of the see. He married Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Bernard Bangor, esquire bedell of Oxford, and left six sons and four daughters.
Skinner's eldest son Matthew became a fellow of Trinity. The latter's grandson was Matthew Skinner, serjeant-at-law; while from the bishop's fourth son was descended John Skinner, the antiquary.
# Robert Wynn Williams

Robert Godfrey Wynn Williams (11 September 1864 – 8 September 1929) was a solicitor and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

## Early days

Wynn Williams was born on 11 September 1864 in Jermyn Street (now Anzac Avenue), Auckland, New Zealand, to parents Robert Wynne Williams and his wife Jane (née Lloyd). His uncle Henry Wynn-Williams was the first to add "Wynn" to his surname, and his father then added "Wynne" to his surname. It is not clear where this originates from, and it could either refer to the old-English word for 'friend', Welsh for 'fair', or to the Reverend John Wynne who had baptised Sir Charles Williams, his father's oldest surviving brother.
Aged 8, Robert Wynn Williams was sent to London to Christ's Hospital to receive his education. Aged 15, he returned to New Zealand to train in Christchurch under his uncle Henry as a lawyer. After he was admitted to the Supreme Court of New Zealand at age 21, he practised as a lawyer for some time in Auckland before declining health prompted him to move to Ireland. In 1890 he was working as a surveyor in New South Wales before working as a solicitor for Thynne and Macartney in Brisbane in 1892.
He headed to Charters Towers in 1894 to start his own practice, specialising in mining and company law, operating this business up until his death in 1929.

## Political career

Wynn Williams, representing the Ministerialists, won the seat of Charters Towers at the 1912 state elections. He held the seat for three years, being defeated in 1915.

## Personal life

On 21 April 1894, Wynn Williams married Elizabeth Macpherson (died 1951) in Sydney. He died in Charters Towers in 1929 and was buried in the Lynd Highway Cemetery.
# Rodney Thompson

Rodney Thompson is a game designer whose writing credits include numerous books for the Star Wars Roleplaying Game and the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. He was the lead developer for the 4th edition version of the Dark Sun campaign setting.
# Rodney Barker (writer)

Rodney Barker (born February 9, 1946), also known as Rod Barker, is an American investigative journalist and writer. He has published several books with Simon & Schuster, Viking Books, Ballantine Books, and other major American publishers.

## Early life and education

Barker was born on February 9, 1946, in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, and raised in Darien, Connecticut. Barker received his BA degree, majoring in philosophy, from Knox College in 1968 and then went to the San Francisco State University for a two-year creative writing master's program.

## Career

After attending the Creative Writing Masters Program at San Francisco State University, Barker started his writing career as the editor of a Durango, Colorado weekly newspaper. He moved on to working as a freelance investigative reporter and feature writer for various regional and national magazines, before becoming a full-time author of non-fiction books.
In 1985, Barker published his first book, The Hiroshima Maidens: A Story of Courage, Compassion and Survival, which was the first published account of an international philanthropic project that brought twenty-five Japanese women, severely disfigured in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, to the United States in 1955 for reconstructive surgery. The women resided in the homes of American Quakers while recovering from surgery, and two of them stayed with Barker's family when he was nine. His book, published on the 40th anniversary of the bombing, chronicles the complex history of the project, and follows the women's lives when they returned to Japan.
His second book, The Broken Circle: A True Story of Murder and Magic in Indian Country, was published in 1992. The book chronicles the events surrounding the mutilation murders of three Navajo men in 1974 by local teenagers in Farmington, New Mexico, the violent aftermath, and the struggle by Native American activists to create a positive civil rights legacy.
In 1996, Barker authored his third book, Dancing with the Devil: Sex, Espionage and the U.S. Marines: the Clayton Lonetree Story, in light of research opportunities that opened up in the former Soviet Union with the end of the Cold War. In this book, Barker unveils previously unknown facts about the headline-making sex-for-secrets Marine spy scandal at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow in the late 1980s.
And the Waters Turned to Blood, his fourth book, was published in 1997, and tells the true story of the toxic microorganism, Pfisteria, that emerged in the polluted coastal waters of North Carolina, causing fish kills and human health effects, and the struggle of a female scientist, Dr. JoAnn Burkholder, to get state and federal authorities to respond.
In 2002, Barker took a break from writing to mount a Santa Fe, New Mexico-based philanthropic public art project called The Trail of Painted Ponies, which he expanded into a collectible horse figurine company of the same name.