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Brown Dog affair The Brown Dog affair was a controversy and cause célèbre for a brief period in Edwardian England, from 1903 to 1910, and revolved around vivisection and a statue erected in memory of a dog killed in the cause of medical research. The Brown Dog affair provoked riots the size of which were not repeated in the United Kingdom until the poll tax riot of March 1990.
Brown Eared Pheasant The Brown Eared Pheasant, Crossoptilon mantchuricum is a large, up to 100cm long, dark brown pheasant of mountain forests of northern China. It has stiff white ear coverts behind the eyes, which look like a moustache.
Brown Eyed Girl "Brown Eyed Girl" is a hit song written and recorded in 1967 by singer and songwriter Van Morrison and produced by Bang Records chief Bert Berns. The song was first released on the album Blowin' Your Mind as Morrison's first single as a solo artist and became his biggest hit.
Brown Grand Theatre The Brown Grand Theatre is a community-based historical Theatre dedicated to enhancing cultural life in North Central Kansas. The theatre is a majestic opera house located in Concordia, Kansas and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Brown hair Brown hair is characterised by very high levels of the dark pigment eumelanin and lower levels of the pale pigment phaeomelanin. Its strands are thicker than those of fair hair but not as much as those of red hair.
Brown Hyena The brown hyena (Parahyaena brunnea, formerly Hyaena brunnea) lives mainly in the Kalahari and Namib deserts of southern Africa. It is smaller than the Spotted Hyena, and unlike its spotted cousin, is largely a scavenger.
Brown Journal of World Affairs The Brown Journal of World Affairs is an American journal of international relations, published bi-annually at Brown University. It was founded in 1993 as the Brown Journal of Foreign Affairs, in response to the emergence of the post-cold war world order.
Brown lanternshark The brown lanternshark, Etmopterus unicolor, is a shark of the family Dalatiidae found in the western Pacific from Japan and New Zealand, between latitudes 39° N and 33° S, at depths of between 400 and 1,380 m. Its length is up to 69 cm.
Brown mudfish The brown mudfish, Neochanna apoda, is a galaxiid of the genus Neochanna, found only in central New Zealand, from Taranaki, through Wellington and the Wairarapa, and on the northwest coast of the South Island. Its length is up to 15 cm, and it can live to at least 7 years.
Brown Mackie College Brown Mackie College is a system of schools operated by Education Management Corporation. It includes the schools formerly known as Southern Ohio College in Ohio and Kentucky; Asher School of Business in Georgia; Commonwealth Business College in Indiana and Illinois; Michiana College in Indiana; RETS Institute of Technology in Kentucky and Pennsylvania; RETS Medical and Business Institute in Kentucky; and AEC Texas Institute.
Brown Mesite The Brown Mesite, Mesitornis unicolor, is a ground-dwelling bird endemic to Madagascar. It is one of three species in the mesite family Mesitornithidae, and though vulnerable, it is the most widespread of the three.
Brown Mountain Power Station, New South Wales Brown Mountain Power Station is a hydroelectric power station working off Rutherford Creek and Cochran Dam, New South Wales, Australia. Brown Mountain has five turbo generators, with a generating capacity of 4.
Brown Mouse Lemur The Brown Mouse Lemur (Microcebus rufus) is a small primate, and like the other mouse lemurs can only be found on the island of Madagascar. They are known also as the Red Mouse Lemur, the Eastern Rufous Mouse Lemur or the Russet Mouse Lemur.
Brown Noddy The Brown Noddy or Common Noddy Anous stolidus is a seabird from the tern family. The largest of the noddies, it can be told from the closely related Black Noddy by its larger size and plumage, which is dark brown rather than black.
Brown Opera Productions Co-founded in 2005 by Brown University students Michael Hadley '07 and Clara Schuhmacher '06, Brown Opera Productions is dedicated to the promotion and performance of classical vocal music both on campus and in the greater Providence community and is a space for singers and musicians to collaborate on exciting classical performance projects. They produce a full-length opera every spring, and throughout the year produce concerts of classical vocal music on campus and in local hospitals, nursing homes, and schools.
Brown podzolic Brown podzolic soils are a subdivision of the Podzolic soils in the British soil classification. Although classed with podzols because they have an iron-rich, or spodic horizon, they are, in fact intermediate between podzols and Brown earths.
Brown powder Brown powder is an explosive agent similar to black powder, but with a slower (and therefore gentler) burning rate. This difference is achieved by incorporating fuel ingredients that are in a less-reactive state; the pulverized and fully processed charcoal (elemental carbon) in black powder provides its distinctive color while its replacement with a different substance produces a more reflective powder, hence its own namesake color.
Brown Palace Hotel Brown Palace Hotel is the 2nd oldest hotel located in Denver, Colorado and is now operated by Quorum Hotels and Resorts. It was built in 1892; one year later than The Oxford Hotel, owned by Henry Brown, and was designed with its odd triangular shape by architect Frank Edbrooke.
Brown Pike Brown Pike is a fell located in the Lake District National Park in Cumbria, England. Brown Pike is near the village of Coniston, and is most commonly approached from there with walkers often continuing onto Buck Pike, Dow Crag and the Old Man of Coniston.
Brown rat The brown rat, common rat, Norway rat, Norwegian rat or wharf rat (Rattus norvegicus) is one of the best-known and common rats, and also one of the largest. It is not known for certain why it is named Rattus norvegicus (Norwegian rat) as it did not originate in Norway, but John Berkenhout, the author of the 1769 book "Outlines of the Natural History of Great Britain", is most likely responsible for the misnomer.
Brown rice Brown rice (or otherwise called "hulled rice") is unmilled or partly milled rice, a kind of whole grain. It has a mild nutty flavor, is chewier than white rice, becomes rancid more quickly, but is far more nutritious.
Brown rice syrup Brown rice syrup is a sweetener derived by culturing cooked rice with enzymes (usually from dried barley sprouts) to break down the starches, then straining off the liquid and cooking it until the desired consistency is reached. The final product is roughly 50% soluble complex carbohydrates, 45% maltose, and 3% glucose.
Brown rot Brown rot (Monilinia fructicola) is a fungal condition that attacks stone fruit, commonly affecting peaches, pears, apples and plums. The fruit develops small brown squishy circles, which gradually spread over the surface of the fruit.
Brown smooth-hound The brown smooth-hound, Mustelus henlei, is a houndshark of the family Triakidae, found on the continental shelves of the subtropical eastern Pacific from northern California to the Gulf of California, Ecuador and Peru between latitudes 43° N and 18° S, from the surface to 200 m. Its length is up to 1 m.
Brown sound The brown sound is a legendary electric guitar distortion tone that musicians try to emulate using various effects pedals, tube amplifiers and modeling amplifiers. The term was coined by guitarist Eddie Van Halen to describe the sound of Alex Van Halen's snare drum, which he then attempted to emulate with his 100-watt Marshall amplifier running at full volume.
Brown sugar Brown sugar is a sucrose sugar product with a distinctive brown color due to the presence of molasses. It is either an unrefined or partially refined soft sugar consisting of sugar crystals with some residual molasses content or produced by the addition of molasses to refined white sugar.
Brown Sahib Brown Sahib is a term used to refer to natives of the South Asia who have been heavily influenced by Western (usually British) culture and thinking. It is used derogatorily by many from these lands who don't care for this influence.
Brown Sicklebill The Brown Sicklebill, Epimachus meyeri is a large, up to 96cm long, dark brown and black bird of paradise with highly iridescent plumages, a sickle-shaped bill, pale blue iris and brown underparts. The male is adorned with ornamental plumes on the sides of its breast and a huge sabre-shaped central tail feathers that are highly prized by natives.
Brown Skua The Brown Skua (Catharacta antarctica) is often referred to as Antarctic Skua (or vice versa); the taxonomy of Skuas is still a matter of dispute. Other names (probably owing to the high level of hybridization in this species) include Southern Great Skua, Southern Skua or Subantarctic Skua.
Brown Stand-Up Comics The Brown Stand-Up Comics is a comedic performance group at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Founded in 1999 by Matt Goldich, it has since been featured in Time MagazineKristin Kloberdanz, Carolina A.
Brown topknot The brown topknot, Notoclinus compressus, is a triplefin of the family Tripterygiidae, endemic to New Zealand in rock pools and from low water to depths of about 5 m, in reef areas of broken rock and large brown seaweed of genera Carpophyllum and Cystophora. Its length is up to about 8.
Brown Thomas Brown Thomas is a chain of four department stores located in Dublin, Galway, Cork and Limerick. It is an upmarket chain, akin to Canada's Holt Renfrew chain and Britain's Selfridges stores, which are controlled by the same family.
Brown University Brown University is a private university located in Providence, Rhode Island. Founded in 1764 as Rhode Island College, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in New England and the seventh-oldest in the United States.
Brown Willy effect The Brown Willy effect is a meteorological phenomenon that sometimes occurs across the south-west peninsula of Great Britain. It leads to heavy showers developing over the high ground of Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, which then often travel a considerable distance downwind of their place of origin.
Brown's Chicken & Pasta Brown's Chicken & Pasta is a chain of fast food restaurants specializing in fried chicken based in Chicago, United States The chain was founded as Brown's Fried Chicken by John Brown in 1949 in Bridgeview, Illinois. Brown's Chicken expanded to many locations throughout the U.
Brown's representability theorem In mathematics, Brown's representability theorem in homotopy theory gives necessary and sufficient conditions on a contravariant functor F on the homotopy category Hot of pointed CW complexes, to the category of sets Set, to be a representable functor. That is, we are given
Brown's Railroad Station Brown's Station, MP 15.8, was one of the pre-fabricated stations that was built for the Ulster and Delaware Railroad in the early 1900s, this on being constructed in 1900, the same year the railroad got to Oneonta.
Brown's Station, New York Brown's Station, New York was a village located in the Esopus Valley in southeastern Ulster County, New York. It was the easternmost village in the town of Olive, New York, and was named after Alfred Brown, who owned and tended to the Brown Farm House that was in the village.
Brown's Town Brown's Town is an inland conurbation in St Ann parish, Jamaica. One of only a few important inland towns on the island, it became significant as a market centre in the mid-nineteenth century following the abolition of slavery.
Brown-backed Bearded Saki The Brown-backed Bearded Saki, Chiropotes israelita, is a species of bearded saki, a type of New World monkey, endemic to Brazil. The species is found in the Amazonian Rio Negro region, and was recently described by scientists, based on differences in pelage coloration, karyotype and molecular analysis.
Brown-brown Brown-brown is a form of powdered cocaine, cut with gunpowder. Commonly given to child soldiers in west African armed conflicts,the drug gained notoriety after it was used by Nicholas Cage]'s character, Yuri Orlov, in the 2005 movie [[Lord of War.
Brown-crested Flycatcher The Brown-crested Flycatcher, Myiarchus tyrannulus, is a passerine bird in the tyrant flycatcher family. It breeds in open woodland from southern California, southern Nevada, central Arizona, and southern Texas southward to Argentina and Bolivia, and on Trinidad and Tobago.
Brown-eared Bulbul The Brown-eared Bulbul (Microscelis amaurotis) is a medium-sized bulbul which is found from the Russian Far East (including Sakhalin), northeastern China, the Korean Peninsula, and Japan, south to Taiwan and the Babuyan and Batanes island chains in the north of the Philippines, occasionally being found in Luzon. It is extremely common within the northern parts of its range, and is a familiar bird throughout Japan, where it is called hiyodori.
Brown-eyed soul Brown-eyed soul is a subgenre of soul or rhythm and blues created mainly by Italian-Americans and Latinos during the 1950s and thriving into the 1980s. The genre of soul music occasionally draws from Latin and Italian folk music, and often contains rock influences.
Brown-Forman Corporation The Brown-Forman Corporation () is one of the largest American-owned companies in the wine and spirits business, and is a diversified producer and marketer of various consumer products. Headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, Brown-Forman employs 6,400 people in the United States and abroad.
Brown-headed Gull The Brown-headed Gull , Larus brunnicephalus, is a small gull which breeds in the high plateaux of central Asia from Turkmenistan to Mongolia. It is migratory, wintering on the coasts and large inland lakes of tropical southern Asia.
Brown-necked Raven The Brown-necked Raven (Corvus ruficollis) is a larger bird (52-56 cm in length) than the Carrion Crow though not as large as the Common Raven. It has similar proportions to the common raven but the bill is not so large or deep and the wings tend to be a little more pointed in profile.
Brown-Sequard syndrome –Brown-Séquard syndrome, also known as Brown-Séquard's hemiplegia and Brown-Séquard's paralysis, is a loss of motricity (paralysis and ataxia) and sensation caused by the lateral hemisection of the spinal cord. Other synonyms are crossed hemiplegia, hemiparaplegic syndrome, hemiplegia et hemiparaplegia spinalis and spinal hemiparaplegia.
Brown-water navy Brown-water navy is a term that originated in the United States Navy, referring to the small gunboats and patrol boats used in rivers. A broader meaning is any naval force that has the capacity to carry out military operations in river or littoral environments.
Brownbanded bamboo shark The brownbanded bamboo shark, Chiloscyllium punctatum, is a bamboo shark in the family Hemiscylliidae found in the Indo-West Pacific from India, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Viet Nam, China, Taiwan, Japan, Philippines, and northern Australia, between latitudes 34° N and 26° S, to depths of 85 m. Its length is up to 1.
Browncoat Browncoat is a slang term from the space western TV series Firefly (and its big-screen "sequel", Serenity) for a member of the Independent Faction, which lost to the Alliance in the Unification War. It is also a nickname for fans of the series.
Browne Falls Browne Falls are a waterfall in Doubtful Sound, which is located in Fiordland National Park, New Zealand. In breathtaking scenery amidst temperate rain forest, the falls cascade 619 metres to the fiord near Hall Arm.
Browne House The Abraham Browne House (built circa 1694-1701) is a colonial house located at 562 Main Street, Watertown, Massachusetts. It is now a nonprofit museum operated by Historic New England and open to the public two afternoons per year.
Brownfield status Brown Field status is a condition, within certain legal exclusions and additions, of real property, the expansion, redevelopment or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant or contaminant, which may include petroleum hydrocarbon releases. Brown Field status generally means there are use or development restrictions on the site.
Brownian bridge A Brownian bridge is a continuous-time stochastic process whose probability distribution is the conditional probability distribution of a Wiener process B(t) (a mathematical model of Brownian motion) given the condition that B(0) = B(1) = 0. Equivalently, if W(t) is a standard Wiener process (i.
Brownian dynamics Brownian dynamics (BD) can be used to describe the motion of molecules in molecular simulation. It is a simplified version of Langevin dynamics and corresponds to the limit where no average acceleration takes place during the simulation run.
Brownian motion Brownian motion (named in honor of the botanist Robert Brown) is either the random movement of particles suspended in a fluid or the mathematical model used to describe such random movements, often called a Wiener process.
Brownian motor Brownian motors are nano-scale or molecular devices by which thermally activated processes (chemical reactions) are controlled and used to generate directed motion in space and to do mechanical or electrical work. These tiny engines operate in an environment where viscosity dominates inertia, and where thermal noise makes moving in a specific direction as difficult as walking in a hurricane: the forces impelling these motors in the desired direction are minuscule in comparison with the random forces exerted by the environment.
Brownian noise In science, Brownian noise (), also known as Brown noise or red noise, is the kind of signal noise produced by Brownian motion. It is named not for a color, but in honor of Robert Brown, the discoverer of Brownian motion.
Brownian ratchet The Brownian ratchet is a thought experiment about an apparent perpetual motion machine postulated by Richard Feynman in a physics lecture at the California Institute of Technology on May 11, 1962 as an illustration of the laws of thermodynamics.
Brownian tree A Brownian tree, whose name is derived from Robert Brown via Brownian motion, is a form of computer art that was briefly popular in the 1990s, when home computers started to have sufficient power to simulate Brownian motion. Brownian trees are mathematical models of dendritic structures associated with the physical process known as diffusion-limited aggregation.
Brownie (guitar) Brownie was the affectionate name to a Fender Stratocaster that was used extensively by Eric Clapton during the early 70's most notably with Derek and the Dominos on their album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs.
Brownie (mythology) A brownie, brounie/Urisk (Lowland Scots) or ùruisg/brùnaidh/gruagach (Scottish Gaelic) is a legendary kind of elf popular in folklore around Scotland and England (especially the north). It is the Scottish counterpart of the Scandinavian tomte, the Russian domovoi or the German Heinzelmännchen.
Browning BLR The Browning BLR is a lever action hunting rifle. It is manufactured by Browning, and comes in many different variations: Chambered from 22-250 Rem to 325WSM to 450 Marlin, barrel length from 20"-24", weighing from 6lb 8oz, to 7lb 12oz.
Browning Hi-Power The Browning Hi-Power is a semi-automatic, single-action, 9 mm pistol. It is based on ideas conceived and patented in 1922 by American firearms inventor John Browning, and later patented by Fabrique Nationale d'Armes de Guerre (FN) of Herstal, Belgium.
Browning Mummery The first known Browning Mummery was an Australian opera tenor and actor of the 1920s and '30s who achieved a considerable reputation in Europe as well as Australia. He was born 12 July 1888 in Melbourne, and died 16 March 1974.
Browning Nagle Browning Nagle (born April 4, 1968 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was a quarterback for the NFL's New York Jets, Indianapolis Colts, and Atlanta Falcons. He also played as a quarterback for the AFL's Orlando Predators and Buffalo Destroyers.
Browning-Ferris Industries Browning-Ferris Industries, or "BFI", is a licensed trademark of Allied Waste Industries, a North America waste collection company. Many local units of Allied Waste are still known as BFI in the markets they serve.
Brownlee Park, Michigan Brownlee Park is an unincorporated community in Calhoun County, Michigan, United States. It is a Census-designated place (CDP) used for statistical purposes and is part of the Battle Creek, Michigan Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Brownlow Bertie, 5th Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven Brownlow Bertie, 5th Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven (1 May 1729, Lindsey House - 8 February 1809, Grimsthorpe). He was the son of Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven and Jane Brownlow, and the younger brother of Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, and uncle of Robert Bertie, 4th Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven and Priscilla Bertie, 21st Baroness Willoughby de Eresby.
Brownlow Committee The President's Committee on Administrative Management, commonly known as the Brownlow Committee or Brownlow Commission, was a committee that in 1937 recommended sweeping changes to the executive branch of the United States government . The recommendations made by the committee resulted in the creation of the Executive Office of the President.
Brownlow Integrated College Brownlow Integrated College in Craigavon, Northern Ireland was one of the first integrated schools in Northern Ireland that converted from a state controlled school to an integrated school. This happened in 1990.
Brownlow Medal The Charles Brownlow Trophy, better known as the Brownlow Medal and colloquially as Charlie, is the medal awarded to the "best and fairest" player in the Australian Football League during the regular season (ie not including finals matches) as decided upon by umpires. It is regarded as the most prestigious award for individual players in the league.
Brownnoser A brownnoser is a slang term for a person who displays obsequiously sychophantic behavior toward someone else. The term is generally applied in a derogatory manner to someone who seeks to ingratiate himself or herself with a person who might facilitate the individual's advancement.
Brownout (medical) A brownout, or grey-out, is a transient loss of vision characterised by a perceived dimming of light accompanied by a brown hue and a loss of peripheral vision. It is a precursor to fainting or a blackout and is caused by hypoxia, a loss of blood pressure or restriction of blood flow to the brain.
Browns Island, Auckland Browns Island, or Motukorea, is one of the best preserved volcanoes in the Auckland Volcanic Field. Located north of Musick Point, it erupted some 8,000 to 12,000 years ago, exhibiting a range of volcanic activity including ash, lava and scoria eruptions.
Browns Lane plant Browns Lane in Coventry, England was the home of Jaguar Cars from 1951 until 2005. It was the historic site of all Jaguar production over this period, as well as the corporate headquarters and the Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust collection of cars.
Browns Mill, Virginia Browns Mill is an unincorporated community in Fairfax County, Virginia, USA. Browns Mill is located at the intersection of Beulah and Browns Mill Roads midway between the Dulles Toll Road (Virginia State Route 267) and the Leesburg Pike (Virginia State Route 7).
Browns Park (Colorado) Brown's Park is an isolated mountain valley along Green River in northwestern Colorado in the United States. The valley in located in northwestern Moffat County near the Utah border, approximately 25 miles (40 km) downstream from Flaming Gorge Dam.
Browns Point, Washington Browns Point is an unincorporated area bordered by Tacoma on the east and Puget Sound on all other sides. The Tacoma neighborhood immediately adjacent to Browns Point is also referred to locally as "Browns Point" (although it is also often referred to as Northeast Tacoma).
Browns Pond Browns Pond, in the Town of New Windsor in Orange County, New York, is the smaller of two reservoirs for the nearby City of Newburgh. It is hook-shaped, with the circuitous Mount Airy Road running past both ends.
Browns Summit, North Carolina Browns Summit (sometimes called Brown Summit) is a small unincorporated community just north-east of Greensboro, NC, near the intersections of NC Hwy 150 and US Route 29 along the future Interstate 785 in Guilford County, Latitude 36.212N & Longitude -79.
Browns Valley, Minnesota Browns Valley is a city in Traverse County, Minnesota, adjacent to the South Dakota border. Browns Valley lies along the Little Minnesota River between the northern end of Big Stone Lake and the southern end of Lake Traverse, which is separated from the Little Minnesota River by a low and narrow continental divide that skirts the northern edge of town.
Brownsboro-Zorn Brownsboro-Zorn is a neighborhood in northeast Louisville, Kentucky, USA. Its boundaries are Brownsboro Road to the south, Birchwood Avenue to the west, Mellwood Avenue to the north, and Mockingbird Valley to the east.
Brownsea Island Scout camp The Brownsea Island Scout Camp was the world's first Scout camp, and is regarded as the formal birth of the worldwide Scout movement. Robert Baden-Powell ran the camp from August 1 to August 8, 1907 on Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour on the South coast of England.
Brownspotted catshark The brownspotted catshark, Scyliorhinus garmani, is a rare cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found in the Indo-West Pacific between latitudes 11° N and 12° S. Its length is about 38 cm but its adult size is mostly unknown.
Brownstone Brownstone is a brown Triassic sandstone which was once a popular building material. While brownstone is often popularly associated in the United States of America with New York City and Chicago, the stone was used widely around the world before losing popularity around 1900 in part due to rapid failures of carved surface details in the weathering process.
Brownsville Public Utilities Board The Brownsville Public Utilities Board, or Brownsville PUB, is the main utility company in the city of Brownsville, Texas. It is the largest of three electric providers (in terms of local customers) in the city of Brownsville, as well as the largest water provider for the city.
Brownsville Revival The Brownsville Revival (also known as The Pensacola Outpouring) was a widely-reported religious phenomenon that began within the Pentecostal movement in 1995. The revival began unexpectedly at Brownsville Assembly of God in Pensacola, Florida on Father's Day.
Brownsville Station (band) Brownsville Station was a Rock and Roll band from Michigan who were popular in the 1970s. Their most famous song "Smoking In The Boys' Room" was recognized as one of rock's earliest teen anthems, featuring angst filled lyrics, blaring guitars and a harmonica solo.
Brownsville Toros (Winter) No regular summertime Brownsville Toros team has been officially announced, but is anticiped in United League Baseball in 2008. Brownsville Toros which play in the winter baseball season are an independent] [[minor league baseball team based in Brownsville, Texas.
Brownsville Urban System The Brownsville Urban System, or "BUS" for short, is a mass transit system based in and serving Brownsville, TX. It is currently the largest mass transit system in the Rio Grande Valley, TX, and is the only mass transit system in Cameron County, TX.
Browse Happy Browse Happy is a website created by the Web Standards Project in August 2004 to convince internet users to use a web browser other than Microsoft's Internet Explorer. It focuses on security issues in Internet Explorer and suggests four alternatives: Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Safari and the Mozilla Suite.
Browser exploit A browser exploit is a short piece of code that exploits a software bug in a web browser such that the code makes the browser do something unexpected, including crash, read or write local files, propagate a virus or install spyware. Malicious code may exploit HTML, JavaScript, Images, ActiveX, Java and other internet technologies.
Browser hijacker A Browser hijacker is a form of malware or spyware that replaces the existing internet browser home page, error page, or search page with its own. These are generally used to force hits to a particular website.
Browser Helper Object A Browser Helper Object (BHO) is a DLL module designed as a plugin for Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser to provide added functionality. BHOs were introduced in October 1997 with the release of version 4 of Internet Explorer.
Browser safe colors The term browser safe colors refers to a set of 216 colors that can be displayed on computers with at least a 256-color display and any browser without dithering. In the HTML hexadecimal codes for colors, each color (RGB) has a value of 00, 33, 66, 99, CC, or FF.
Browser sniffing Browser sniffing is a common technique used in websites and web applications in order to determine the web browser a visitor is using, and to serve browser-appropriate content to the visitor. This controversial practice is sometimes necessary because of incompatibilities between browsers in areas such as the interpretation of HTML, cascading style sheets (CSS) and the Document Object Model (DOM).
Browser synchronizer A browser synchronizer is a tool or an extension which allows users to keep their web browser configured in the same way on different computers or operating systems. For exemple, a person using Firefox at home and office can have the "same Firefox" in both places thanks to the Internet.
Browser wars The term "browser wars" is the name given to the competition for dominance in the web browser marketplace. The term is most commonly used to refer to two specific periods of time: the particularly intense struggle between Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator during the late 1990s, and the growing threat which Mozilla Firefox poses to Internet Explorer from 2004 onward.

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