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Brooklyn Eagle The Brooklyn Eagle, also called The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, was a daily newspaper published in Brooklyn, New York from October 26, 1841 to March 16, 1955. It was the most popular afternoon paper in the United States at one point.
Brooklyn Friends School Brooklyn Friends School is a Quaker school in New York City. Brooklyn Friends School (BFS) is an independent, college preparatory Quaker school serving a culturally diverse educational community of approximately 600 students, ages 20 months through 12th grade.
Brooklyn Funk Essentials Brooklyn Funk Essentials is an acid-jazz, funk, and hip hop collective featuring musicians and poets from different cultures. The band was conceived in 1993 by producer Arthur Baker and bassist and musical director Lati Kronlund.
Brooklyn Handicap The Brooklyn Handicap is a race for thoroughbred horses held every year at Belmont Park on Long Island, New York. The race is the second part of what is sometimes referred to as the New York Handicap Triple series of races.
Brooklyn Heat The Brooklyn Heat were an American Basketball Association (ABA) team supposed to play in Brooklyn starting in the fall of 2005. However, like several ABA expansion teams announced for that season, the team never began actual play.
Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn Brooklyn Heights is a neighborhood within the New York City borough of Brooklyn; originally designated through popular reference as 'Brooklyn Village', it has, since 1834, become a prevalent area of the Brooklyn borough. As of 2000, the Brooklyn Heights sustained a population of 22,493 people.
Brooklyn Hispano The Brooklyn Hispano was an American soccer club based in Brooklyn, New York that was an inaugural member of the reformed American Soccer League. The club was named the Brooklyn Giants for the 1942/43 season only.
Brooklyn Historic Railway Association The Brooklyn Historic Railway Association's (BHRA) shop, trolley barn and offices are located in Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York, on the historic Beard Street Piers (circa 1870). BHRA had a fleet of 16 trolleys (15 PCC trolleys and a leased 1897 trolley car from Oslo, Norway).
Brooklyn Historical Society Founded in 1863, the Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS) is a museum, library, and educational center dedicated to preserving and encouraging the study of Brooklyn's rich 400-year past, while reflecting upon the future of our culturally rich borough. BHS houses a treasure trove of materials relating to the founding of our country and the history of Brooklyn and its people.
Brooklyn Knights Brooklyn Knights are an American soccer team, founded in 1999. The team is a member of the United Soccer Leagues Premier Development League (PDL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, and plays in the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference against teams from Albany, Hyannis, New Rochelle, Ottawa, Providence, St.
Brooklyn Lions The Brooklyn Lions was a National Football League team that played in 1926. The team was formed as the league's countermove to the original American Football League, which also planned to field a team in Brooklyn called the Brooklyn Horsemen.
Brooklyn Lobster Brooklyn Lobster is a film directed, produced and written by Kevin Jordan and officially presented by Martin Scorsese. The feature premiered at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival and has also been officially selected by the Hamptons International Film Festival, the Avignon Film Festival and the Bahamas International Film Festival.
Brooklyn Luckfield Brooklyn "Bullet" Luckfield is a fictional character from the Super Robot Wars series. He has appeared as a playable character in the Super Robot Wars Alpha games (except for Alpha Gaiden) and the Super Robot Wars Original Generation series.
Brooklyn Navy Yard The Brooklyn Navy Yard, also known as the New York Naval Shipyard (NYNSY), the New York Navy Yard and United States Navy Yard, New York, is located 1.7 miles northeast of the Battery on the Brooklyn side of the East River in Wallabout Basin, a semicircular bend of the East River.
Brooklyn Royal Giants The Brooklyn Royal Giants were a professional baseball team based in Brooklyn, New York which played in the Negro Leagues. They were one of the premier professional teams before World War I, winning multiple championships in the East.
Brooklyn South Brooklyn South was a short-lived American television police drama. It aired from 1997-1998 for only one season and was cancelled due to poor ratings, which were in turn due to CBS constantly rescheduling the episodes (and, in some fans' opinions, a too-large lead cast).
Brooklyn Station, Terminus Cosmos Brooklyn Station, Terminus Cosmos is volume ten in the French comic book (or bande dessinée) science fiction series Valérian: Spatio-Temporal Agent created by writer Pierre Christin and artist Jean-Claude Mézières.
Brooklyn Sudano Brooklyn Sudano (born January 5, 1981 in Nashville, Tennessee), is an African-American actress who plays Vanessa Scott on My Wife And Kids and Felicia on Cuts. She is the daughter of Donna Summer and Bruce Sudano.
Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir is a highly-recognized Grammy-winning non-denominational, 300-member voice gospel choir based at the Brooklyn Tabernacle, a church located in downtown Brooklyn in New York City. It is highly lauded, and its focus is on the hope of the Christian gospel, ministered through song.
Brooklyn Trust Company The Brooklyn Trust Company was a New York City bank that merged with Manufacturers Hanover in 1950. Their Italian Renaissance-inspired headquarters was built between 1913 and 1916 on the corner of Montague and Clinton Streets in Brooklyn Heights.
Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel The Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel is a toll road in New York City which crosses under the East River at its mouth and connects the Boroughs of Brooklyn and Manhattan, nearly passing under, but providing no access to Governors Island. It consists of twin tubes, carrying an aggregate of four traffic lanes, and at 9,117 feet (2,779 meters) is the longest underwater vehicular tunnel in North America and the longest continuous underwater vehicular tunnel in the world.
Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation The Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT) was an urban transit holding company, based in Brooklyn, New York City, United States, and incorporated in 1923. It is now the BMT Division of the New York City Subway.
Brooklyn, New Zealand Brooklyn is a suburb of Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand. It is located three km south of the city centre, on the eastern slopes of the hills above Happy Valley, which extend south towards the Owhiro Bay on Cook Strait.
Brooklyn, Pretoria Brooklyn is a suburb of the city of Pretoria, South Africa. It is a well-established, sought-after area, lying to the east of the city centre, encompassing high-end residential properties and several upmarket mall developments.
Brookmans Park Brookmans Park is a village, located in the civil parish of North Mymms, in Hertfordshire, southeast England. It is well known for its varied and interesting local history, including an ancient historic estate that used to exist within its boundaries, its BBC transmitter station, and excellent local amenities.
Brookmans Park Transmitter The Brookmans Park transmitter is a facility for medium wave broadcasting north of London (). The station was built by the BBC for a regional program to be transmitted to the Home Counties, London and South East.
Brooks Brothers Brooks Brothers is the oldest surviving men's clothier in the United States. The privately owned company is owned by Retail Brand Alliance, a spinoff of Luxottica, and is headquartered on Madison Avenue in New York City.
Brooks Brothers riot The Brooks Brothers riot was a demonstration by out of state, high level republican protesters outside a meeting of election canvassers in Miami, Florida on November 19, 2000, which led to the abrupt cancellation of a hand recount where 10,750 ballots remain uncounted in the 2000 United States presidential election. The name refers to a fancy brand of suits presumed to have been worn by the protesters.
Brooks Brown Brooks Brown is a 1999 Columbine graduate and was a friend of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the perpetrators of the Columbine High School massacre. On the day of the shooting, he was smoking outside the school when he saw Eric drive into the parking lot.
Brooks Eckerd Brooks Eckerd Pharmacy is a chain of approximately 2,000 pharmacies operating in 18 states on the Eastern half of the United States in Midwest, Southeast and East Coast regions. It is the 4th largest drugstore chain in the country.
Brooks High School (Australia) Brooks High School is a high school located in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. The school is coeducational with 690 students drawn from the suburbs of Ravenswood, Invermay, Mowbray, Newnham, Rocherlea, Mayfield and the East Tamar area.
Brooks Institute of Photography The Brooks Institute of Photography is a for-profit college based in Santa Barbara, California specializing in still and motion picture photography and in graphic design. The school is owned by the Career Education Corporation.
Brooks Kieschnick Michael Brooks Kieschnick (born June 6, 1972 in Robstown, Texas) is a former professional baseball player. He was primarily a relief pitcher and left-handed pinch hitter who last played for the Baltimore Orioles.
Brooks Lawrence Brooks Ulysses Lawrence (born January 30, 1925 in Springfield, Ohio) is a former Major League Baseball All-Star pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals (1954-1955), Cincinnati Redlegs (1956-1959), and Cincinnati Reds (1960).
Brooks Mileson Brooks John Joseph Mileson (born Pennywell, Sunderland) is a British businessmen and the financial backer of Scottish football club Gretna as well as being a philanthropist to 70 non-league clubs. Mileson has invested in Gretna and plans for them to eventually reach the Scottish Premier League.
Brooks Pharmacy Brooks Pharmacy was a chain of more than 330 pharmacies located throughout New England and New York and has been a well-recognized name in the New England pharmacy industry for several decades. Brooks Pharmacy is currently a unit of the Quebec-based Jean Coutu Group.
Brooks Range The Brooks Range is a mountain range that stretches from west to east across northern Alaska and into Canada's Yukon Territory, a total distance of about 1100 km (700 mi). The mountains are not especially high, topping out at over 2,700 m (9,000 ft).
Brooks Stevens Clifford Brooks Stevens (June 7, 1911-January 4, 1995) was an industrial designer, as well as automotive designer, graphic designer, and stylist. Though he is often cited with inventing the concept of planned obsolescence (the practice of artificially shortening product lifecycles in order to influence the buying patterns of consumers in favor of manufacturers), he did not invent it but rather coined the term and defined it.
Brooks Thompson Brooks James Thompson (born July 19 1970, in Dallas, Texas) is an American former professional basketball player who was selected by the Orlando Magic in the 1st round (27th overall) of the 1994 NBA Draft. A 6'4" guard from Texas A&M University and Oklahoma State University, Thompson played in four NBA seasons for five different teams.
Brooks Tomlin Brooks Tomlin (born November 29, 1969) is currently the meteorologist for the weekday edition on Eyewitness News This Morning on KYW-TV in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Tomlin has his National Weather Association and American Meteorological Society seals of approval in addition to being an AMS Certified Broadcast Meteorologist.
Brooks Wackerman Brooks Wackerman (born Tuesday, February 15, 1977) is the newest drummer for Bad Religion and the younger brother of Chad Wackerman (a session drummer who once played with Frank Zappa). He played under the direction of his father Chuck Wackerman in the Los Alamitos High School Jazz Band from 1991 to 1995 and also in middle school.
Brooks' law Brooks' law was stated by Fred Brooks in his 1975 book The Mythical Man-Month as "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later." Likewise, Brooks memorably stated "The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.
Brooks-Baxter War The Brooks-Baxter War was an 1874 political struggle between the Republican Party, nicknamed "The Minstrels", and the Liberal Republican Party, nicknamed "The Brindle Tails", over the governor's office of Arkansas.
Brooks-Pioneer Village, Kentucky Tornado On May 28, 1996 a tornado of strength 1 on the Fujita scale touched down in extreme southern Jefferson County, Kentucky and quickly strengthened to F-4 as it moved east-southeast into the Louisville suburbs of Brooks, Pioneer Village, Hillview, and Mount Washington in Bullitt County.
Brookside Brookside, commonly referred to as "Brookie", was a soap opera based in West Derby, a suburb of Liverpool, England - introduced with the new British television network, Channel 4. Produced by Mersey Television, it aired from the channel's first night on November 2, 1982.
Brookside Shopping Centre Brookside Shopping Centre is a major shopping centre in Mitchelton, a suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia managed by Retail First. Its major stores include a two-storey Myer and Target department stores, Woolworths and Supa IGA supermarkets, and a Crazy Clarks discount store.
Brookswood Secondary School Brookswood Secondary School is located in the community of Brookswood in Langley, British Columbia. Among other resources, the school has an automechanics workshop, two gymnasiums, a theatre, and a television studio.
Brookton Highway Brookton Highway is a mostly 2-lane undivided single carriageway in Western Australia, running from the southern Perth suburb of Kelmscott, through Westdale, to the southern Wheatbelt town of Brookton. It is signposted as State Route 40, however the route continues on far past Brookton, passing through Corrigin, Kondinin, Hyden, Lake King, and finishing at South Coast Highway, just west of Ravensthorpe.
Brookton, Western Australia Brookton (; post code: 6306) is a town and shire located in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, approximately 140km from Perth via the Brookton Highway where it crosses the Great Southern Highway. The town is also located on the Great Southern railway line.
Brookville Locomotive Company Brookville Locomotive Company, based in Brookville, Pennsylvania, United States manufactures railroad locomotives for industrial and light capacity switching needs. The company is now known as Brookville Equipment Corporation
Brookweed Brookweeds, or water pimpernels, are plants of the genus Samolus, a nearly cosmopolitan genus of about 15 species of water-loving herbs. It was formerly treated as part of the Primulaceae or Theophrastaceae, but is now often placed in its own family, the Samolaceae.
Brookwood Cemetery Brookwood Cemetery is a burial ground in Brookwood, Surrey, England. Also known as the London Necropolis, it was established by the London Necropolis Company in 1852 to house London's dead, since the capital was finding it difficult to accommodate its increasing population, both of living and dead.
Brookwood Hills Brookwood Hills is a historic neighborhood located in intown Atlanta North of Midtown and South of Buckhead. Home to about 1000 people, it was founded in the early 1920's by Benjamin Franklin Burdette and his son, Arthur.
Brookwood Inn Brookwood Inn is a small chain of independently-operated hotels, founded by a New York-based Hudson Hotels. There are locations in several cities including Pittsford, New York, Charlotte, North Carolina, and Raleigh, North Carolina.
Brookwood railway station Brookwood is a National Rail railway station in Brookwood in the English county of Surrey. It was constructed to serve the adjacent Brookwood Cemetery and was at one stage served by its own station in London (London Necropolis railway station) for the funeral trains.
Brooky Crimlow Brooky Crimlow is believed to be the name of a small hamlet located within present-day Brookmans Park in Hertfordshire, England. Local legend places it in the region of Mymms Drive and The Grove, and it is supposed to have been present in the twelfth century when there is a mention of it within the estate of Sir Richard Gobion.
Broom (shrub) Brooms are a group of evergreen, semi-evergreen, and deciduous shrubs in the subfamily Faboideae of the legume family Fabaceae, mainly in the three genera Chamaecytisus, Cytisus and Genista, but also in five other small genera (see box, right). All genera in this group are from the tribe Genisteae (syn.
Broom Bridge Broom Bridge, also known as Brougham Bridge, is a small bridge along Broombridge road which crosses the Royal Canal in Dublin, Ireland. Broom bridge is somewhat famous for being the location where Sir William Rowan Hamilton first wrote down the fundamental formula for quaternions on October 16, 1843, which is to this day commemorated by a on the northwest corner of the underside of the bridge.
Broom Hall Broom Hall is a historic house in the City of Sheffield, England that gives its name to the surrounding Broomhall district of the city. The earliest part of the house is timber-framed, it has been tree-ring dated to c1498Harman, R.
Broom, South Yorkshire Broom (historically sometimes spelled "Broome") is a village in southern Yorkshire in northern England and is located in the former parish of Whiston about 2 km southeast of Rotherham. Broom sits on top of a former Roman fortification and was the site of a Saxon trading town.
Broomball Australia Broomball Australia is the national governing body for the ice sport of broomball in Australia. It was incorporated in 2004 after a number of years unofficially operating under other varied names, such as the Australian Broomball Association.
Broome Bird Observatory Broome Bird Observatory is an educational, scientific and recreational facility near Broome, Western Australia. It began operating in 1988 under the auspices of the Birds Australia in order to provide a base for the study and enjoyment of the birds of Roebuck Bay and adjoining areas, especially the migratory waders for which the area is one of the most important sites in the world.
Broome Bulls The Broome Bulls are an Australian rules football team that play in the West Kimberley Football Association (WKFA). They were formed in 1949 (Originally as the Meatworks Football Club) and then became the Broome Bulls Football Club in 1995 after the Meatworks closed its doors in 1994.
Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin is a pidgin that sprung up in Broome, Western Australia in the early 20th century to facilitate communication between the various groups working in the pearling industry there—Japanese, Malays, Koepangers, Hakka Chinese, Filipinos, a small number of Koreans, and local Australian Aborigines, mainly of the Bardi tribe but also Nyulnyul, Jabirrjabirr, Jukun, Yawuru and Karajarri people. Its words come primarily from the Malay language (specifically Kupang Malay), but it also took some words and grammatical features from Japanese, English (through the Pidgin English of the Aborigines), and the local Australian Aboriginal languages.
Broome, Norfolk Broome is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is situated on the north bank of the River Waveney, which forms the border with Suffolk, some 2 km north of the town of Bungay and 20 km south-east of the city of Norwich.
Broomhill, Sheffield, South Yorkshire Broomhill ward—which includes the districts of Broomhill, Crookesmoor, Endcliffe, and Tapton—is one of the 28 electoral wards in City of Sheffield, England. It is located in the western part of the city and covers an area of 2.
Broomhouse Tunnel Broomhouse Tunnel, was built on the Midland Main Line between Chesterfield and Sheffield, in 1870 when the Midland Railway built what is known to railwaymen as the "New Road" diverting from the "Old Road" built by the North Midland Railway which bypassed Sheffield due to the gradients involved.
Broomlands There is sadly little to be known of this odd little district in North Ayrshire, other than that it is a shit hole. Situated on a series of bends in the River Annick, Broomlands and its original features are now almost lost within the south-Bourtreehill & Broomlands housing scheme.
Broomrape Broomrape or Broom-rape (Orobanche) is a genus of about 150 species of parasitic herbaceous plants in the family Orobanchaceae, mostly native to the temperate Northern HemisphereBeck-Mannagetta, G. (1930) Orobanchaceae.
Broomstick lace Broomstick lace is a crochet technique that combines the use of a crochet hook and another long, slender item such as a knitting needle. Traditionally, a broomstick was used, but the modern variant is a lightweight plastic knitting needle or smooth wooden craft dowel.
Broomstick skirt Broomstick Skirt is a type of light-weight skirt that is characterized by its amount of fabric and "wrinkly" or "crinkled" look. These skirts tend to be ankle length, and appear to be a little full.
Bror Rexed Bror Rexed (June 19, 1914–August 21, 2002) was a Swedish neuroscientist and professor at Uppsala University. Internationally, he is best known today for his development of the system now known as Rexed laminae, but in Sweden, he is also known for his involvement in the "du-reformen" of the Swedish language.
Brorfelde Observatory Brorfelde Observatory (Brorfelde Observatoriet) is an astronomical observatory (IAU code 054) home to the Brorfelde Schmidt Telescope. It was run as a branch of the Copenhagen University Observatory until 1996.
Bros Bros were an English boy band active in the late-1980s and early- 1990s, consisting of the twin brothers Matt Goss and Luke Goss along with Craig Logan. They were managed by former Pet Shop Boys manager Tom Watkins, who it was rumoured was actually one of the main songwriters, working under the name "The Brothers" with other songwriters to give the impression that the Goss brothers were the actual writers of the early hits.
Bros Records Bros Records is a Central European record label owned by the major record company Sony BMG Music Entertainment. The label is based in Germany and is the home to several successful chart acts, including E-Rotic, Maarja Kivi, Bad Boys Blue, Gracia, Chris Norman and Virus Incorporation.
Broscauti Broscauti is a small vilage near Dorohoi city in Botosani county, Romania. It's a 3000 people village and the main occupation of its habitants is agriculture (growing plants like corn, potatoes, animals- cows, sheeps, rabits and birds like ducks, chickens, etc.
Brose Baskets Brose Baskets is a German professional basketball club based in Bamberg, Bavaria. The club won the German Championship for first time in its history in 2005 and became the first German club to qualify for Euroleague Top 16.
Broseley Brass Broseley Brass is a brass band based in Milton Keynes, UK. It was founded in 1984 and its name derives from that of its original commercial sponsors Broseley Homes who were house builders active during the early development of Milton Keynes.
Brosimum alicastrum Brosimum alicastrum or breadnut is a Brosimum tree species under the Moraceae family of flowering plants, whose other genera include fig and mulberries. Other common names for the plant include Maya nut, ramon, ojoche, ojite, ojushte, ujushte, ujuxte, capomo, mojo, ox or masica.
Brosno dragon The Brosno dragon or Brosnya is a creature believed to be living in Lake Brosno which is situated in the European part of Russia, in the Tver region, near the town of Andreapol. There have been many reports of a 'lake serpent' or 'Dragon' living in the lake.
Brospeak Brospeak (noun) is the lexicon particularly belonging to fans of the early 1990s, although less notably among members of other subcultures. Although unable to cite a reliable, published source, brospeak is a prolific semantic phenomenon the average American is presumably familiar with.
Broteas In Greek mythology, Broteas was the ugly son of Tantalus, whose other offspring were Niobe and Pelops. He carved the most ancient image of the Great Mother of the Gods (Cybele), an image that in Pausanias' day (2nd century CE) was still held sacred by the Magnesians.
Brothel creeper Creepers or brothel creepers are a type of shoe that gained popularity in the 1950s with the rise of rockabilly and the teddy boy youth culture in the United States and the United Kingdom. They are considered a classic item of 1950's fashion, along with such trends as drainpipe trousers, draped jackets, shoe-string ties, quiff and pompadour haircuts, and velvet or electric blue clothes.
Brother (1997 film) Brother (Russian: Брат, Brat) is a 1997 crime film directed by Aleksei Balabanov and starring Sergei Bodrov Jr.. The film quickly became a popular hit in Russia and announced a new generation of Russian filmmaking had arrived.
Brother against brother "Brother against brother" is a slogan used in histories of the American Civil War, describing the predicament faced in families (primarily, but not exclusively, residents of border states) in which loyalties and military service were divided between the Union and the Confederacy.
Brother and Sister Brother and Sister is a well known European fairy tale which was, among others, written down by the Brothers Grimm in their collection of Children's and Household Tales. It is alternatively known as Little Sister and Little Brother or (in the Grimm's version) BrĂĽderchen und Schwesterchen.
Brother Against Brother (game) Brother Against Brother is a popular set of rules for miniature wargaming, recreating small skirmishes primarily of the American Civil War, as well as the French and Indian War and similar time periods. First written by Ivor M.
Brother Andrew Anne van der Bijl (born 11 May 1928), known in English-speaking countries as Brother Andrew, is a Christian missionary famous for his exploits smuggling Bibles to communist countries in the height of the Cold War, a feat that has earned him the nickname "God's smuggler". Brother Andrew studied at the Bible Training Institute (now the International Christian College) in Glasgow, Scotland.
Brother Bear Brother Bear is a 2003 traditionally-animated feature produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures on November 1, 2003, the forty-third animated feature in the Disney animated features canon. In the film, an Inuit boy pursues a bear in revenge for a battle that he provoked in which his oldest brother is killed.
Brother Bear 2 Brother Bear 2 is a direct-to-video sequel to the animated feature Brother Bear and was released on DVD on August 29, 2006."'Brother Bear' DVD Press Release" by Walt Disney Home Entertainment, "Walt Disney Home Entertainment", May 26, 2006, retrieved May 27, 2006
Brother Bones Brother Bones (born Freeman Davis, 1903 – 1974) was an American whistling and bone-playing musician from Montgomery, Alabama. His late 1940s recording of the 1925 standard "Sweet Georgia Brown" became internationally famous after being adopted as the theme song of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team in 1952.
Brother Brown Brother Brown (founded 1995 and disbanded in 2004) was a Danish houseduo, consisting of Atle Rønne Thorberg and Henrik Olsen. In the later half of the 1990s and beginning of the 2000s, Brother Brown made numerous remixes, most significantly of Madonna and Pet Shop Boys.
Brother Bryan James Alexander Bryan, known as Brother Bryan, (born March 20, 1863, near Kingstree, South Carolina - died January 28, 1941, in Birmingham, Alabama) was a well-loved pastor of Third Presbyterian Church in Birmingham, Alabama.
Brother Down Brother Down is the first studio album by Sam Roberts, a Canadian rock musician and singer/songwriter. Although some of the songs on the debut appear on later albums, Brother Down did not have a lot of success when it was originally released.
Brother Eadulf Brother Eadulf is a fictional character created by Peter Tremayne (nom de plume of the Celtic scholar and author Peter Berresford Ellis). He appears in the Sister Fidelma series of mystery novels, set in 7th-century Britain.
Brother Elephants Brother Elephants (兄弟象) is a Taiwanese professional baseball team. It was originally established as an amateur team in 1984 by the Brother Hotel located in Taipei City, and later joined the Chinese Professional Baseball League(CPBL) in 1989.
Brother Grimm Created by Geoff Johns, Brother Grimm in the DC universe is the son of an evil king from Eastwind (a fairy tale land) and a villain of The Flash (Wally West). His powers include sensing the use of the Speed Force, meaning that, whenever he and Wally face off, Wally must remain at normal speeds or Grimm will be able to anticipate his moves.
Brother Ignatius O'Connor Brother Ignatius O'Connor FMS was a Marist Brother who worked extensively in Queensland, Australia and was the founding headmaster of Catholic boys' school Marist College Ashgrove. He was a renowned visionary and worker extraordinaire.
Brother Industries () is a diversified Japanese company that produces a wide variety of products including sewing machines, large machine tools, label makers, and fax machines, printers, typewriters, and other computer-related electronics. Brother distributes their products both under their own name and under OEM agreements with other companies.
Brother Jim James Gilles (b. 1962), better known as Jim Gilles or more commonly Brother Jim, is an American evangelist whose ministry is concentrated on college campuses, particularly in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, and surrounding areas.

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