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Bruno Bonfim Bruno Bonfim (born May 18, 1979 in Goiânia, Goiás) is a middle-distance freestyle swimmer from Brazil, who competed for his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. A year earlier he won the bronze medal at the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Bruno Cremer Bruno Crémer (born 6 october 1929, in Saint-Mandé, France), is a french actor who made a great part of his career on stage but also made successful performances for the cinema and the television. He is widely known in France and the french speaking world for his interpretation of the famous detective Maigret.
Bruno de Finetti Bruno de Finetti (June 13, 1906 - July 20, 1985) was an Italian probabilist and statistician, noted for the "operational subjective" conception of probability. The classic exposition of his distinctive theory is the 1937 "La prévision: ses lois logiques, ses sources subjectives," Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré, 7, 1-68, which discussed probability founded on the coherence of betting odds and the consequences of exchangeability.
Bruno de Heceta Bruno de Heceta (Hezeta) y Dudagoitia (1744-1807) was a Spanish explorer of the Pacific Northwest. Born in Bilbao, he was sent by the viceroy of New Spain, Antonio MarĂ­a Bucareli y UrsĂşa, to explore the area north of Alta California in response to rumors that there were Russian settlements there.
Bruno Faidutti Bruno Faidutti (23 October 1961) is an historian and sociologist, living in France, who is best known as an author of board games. His best known games include Knightmare Chess (1991), Mystery of the Abbey (1993, 2003) and Citadels (2000).
Bruno Ferrante Bruno Ferrante (born April 26, 1947 in Lecce) has been Milan prefect from 8 June 2000 to November 2005. He ran in 2006 as mayoral candidate of Milan for the centre-left coalition The Union, after having won a primary election with around 67.
Bruno Freindlich Bruno Arturovich Freindlich ( (10 October 1909 – 9 July 2002) was a Russian actor of remote German ancestry who became People's Artist of the USSR in 1974. His daughter Alisa Freindlikh is also a notable actress.
Bruno Gerussi Bruno Gerussi (7 May 1928 – November 21] [[1995) was a Canadian television actor born in Medicine Hat, Alberta, best known for the lead role in the CBC series The Beachcombers. He also hosted CBC's daily cooking-talk show Celebrity Cooks in the late 1970s.
Bruno Giussani Bruno Giussani (born 1964 in Faido, Ticino, Switzerland) is a Swiss writer and the author of Roam: Making Sense of the Wireless Internet (Random House 2001 & 2002) and other books. He is a frequent speaker and conference producer (among others, producer of the TEDGLOBAL 2005 conference in Oxford, UK.
Bruno Goergen Bruno Goergen is an inmate on the HBO drama Oz played by Harry O'Reilly. A corrupt and bigoted police detective serving time for murdering an arms and weapons dealer, Goergen is given a new identity upon entering Oz as he has turned State's evidence on a major gun smuggling case.
Bruno Gollnisch Bruno Gollnisch (born January 28, 1950 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a French academic and politician, chairman since its 2007 creation of the European Parliamentary far-right group Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty and general delegate (second-ranking executive) of the National Front far-right party since 2005. Gollnisch is a councillor of the Rhône-Alpes région of France, and a deputy to the European Parliament.
Bruno Grandi Bruno Grandi (born May 9, 1934) is an Italian sportsman, currently president of the FIG (Federation Internationale de Gymnastique) since 1996 and a member of the International Olympic Committee since 2000. He was also an Italian junior gymnast, but has achieved more gymnastics success in a non-performing capacity, rising to become president of the FIG.
Bruno Gröning Bruno Gröning (Danzig-Oliva, May 30, 1906 — Paris, January 26, 1959) was a faith healer in Germany. He regarded himself as a messenger of God and his lectures called people to the "Großen Umkehr" (lit.
Bruno Hauptmann Bruno Richard Hauptmann (November 26, 1899 – April 3, 1936) was a German carpenter and former criminal, sentenced to death and executed for the abduction and murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, the 20-month old son of famous pilot Charles Lindbergh. The Lindbergh kidnapping gained international infamy, and has become known as "The Crime of the Century.
Bruno Hildebrand Bruno Hildebrand (March 6,1812 - January 29, 1878) was a German economist representing the "older" historical school of economics. His economic thinking was highly critical of classical economists, especially of David Ricardo.
Bruno Huber Bruno Huber (November 29 1930 - November 3 1999) was a Swiss astrologer, and along with his wife, Louise Huber, founded the Huber School of Astrology in 1962. A later branch of the school opened in the UK in 1983.
Bruno Hussar Father Bruno Hussar (1911 – February 8, 1996) was the founder of Neve Shalom / Wahat al-Salam, which means "Oasis of Peace," a Arab/Jewish village dedicated to coexistence. Father Bruno derived the name from the book of Isaiah (32:18) "My people shall dwell in an Oasis of Peace".
Bruno Kramm Bruno Kramm, born in Munich, is a German electronic wiz, doing Programming and playing Synthesizers for the industrial band Das Ich. He is a well-known producer for many industrial bands, including Atrocity, Illuminate, Saviour Machine, Die Schinder, Ancient Ceremonies, Goethes Erben, Sanguis Et Cinis, In Strict Confidence, Placebo Effect, Relatives Menschsein, Printed At Bismarcks Death, Ghosting, Cyan killsE.
Bruno Kreisky Bruno Kreisky (January 22, 1911 – July 29, 1990) — austrian politician, served as Chancellor of Austria from 1970 to 1983. Aged 72 at the end of his chancellorship, he was the oldest acting Chancellor after the Second World War.
Bruno Kreisky Award The Bruno-Kreisky-Award is a biennial award created in October 1976 on the occasion of the 65th birthday of Bruno Kreisky. The laureates are rewarded for their achievements in the field of human rights with the monetary award of between 3500 and 15 000 euros.
Bruno Lawrence Bruno Lawrence (February 12, 1941–June 10, 1995) was a musician and actor, born David Lawrence in Brighton, England. His family migrated to New Zealand in 1946, settling in New Plymouth before moving to Wellington in 1948.
Bruno Liljefors Bruno Andreas Liljefors (1860-1939) was a Swedish artist, the most important and probably the most influential wildlife painter of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.Hammond, Nicholas, Modern Wildlife Painting, Pica Press, 1998, ISBN 1-873403-55-0, p31-40.
Bruno Manser Bruno Manser (born August 25, 1954 in Basel, Switzerland) was an environmental activist. He was well-known in Switzerland for his public activism for rainforest preservation and the protection of indigenous peoples.
Bruno Marcotte Bruno Marcotte (born October 10, 1974) is a Canadian retired pairs figure skater who currently works as a coach. Over the course of his eligible career, he competed with Isabelle Coulombe, Nadia Micallef, and Valerie Marcoux.
Bruno Martins Teles Bruno Martins Teles or simply Bruno Teles born May 1, 1986, in Alvorada, Brazil is a Brazilian left-wingback who plays for GrĂŞmio. Promoted from Under-20's in 2006, and made professional debut in the Gre-Nal derby in a 0-0 away draw on July 30, 2006.
Bruno Mathsson Bruno Mathsson (1907-1988) was a Swedish furniture designer and architect with ideas coloured by functionalism/modernism, as well as old Swedish crafts tradition. Being the son of a carpenter in the town of Värnamo in the South of Sweden, it was fairly obvious what work the young Bruno would choose.
Bruno Mattei Bruno Mattei (born 30 July 1931) is an Italian film director and editor who has gained a minor cult following for his exploitation films. He frequently works under the pseudonym Vincent Dawn (choosing the surname as a nod to George Romero's Dawn of the Dead).
Bruno Metsu Bruno Metsu (born 28 January, 1954 in Dunkerque) is a French football manager. He took the Senegal national football team to its first ever FIFA World Cup in Korea/Japan in 2002 where they surprised everybody by beating France in the opening game of the World Cup by one goal to nil.
Bruno Munari Bruno Munari (October 24, 1907 – September 30, 1998) was one of the most notable designers of the 20th century, contributing fundamentals in many fields of visual arts (paint, sculpture, film, industrial design, graphics) and non visual arts (literature, poetry, didactic) with the research on the game subject, infancy and creativity.
Bruno Nicolai Bruno Nicolai (1926 - 1991) was an Italian film music composer, orchestra director, and musical editor most active in the 1960s through the 1980s. While studying piano and composition at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome, he befriended Ennio Morricone and formed a long working relationship, with Nicolai eventually conducting for and co-scoring films with Morricone.
Bruno Nuytten Bruno Nuytten (born August 28, 1945 in Melun, Seine-et-Marne, ĂŽle-de-France) is a French cinematographer-turned-director who directed Camille Claudel. Nuytten is a Flemish last name that can appear under several different forms.
Bruno Peyron Bruno Peyron is a yachtsman who, along with his crew on the catamaran Orange II, broke the outright round-the-world sailing record in March 2005. Peyron, from the French Atlantic coast city of La Baule, has spent a lifetime perfecting his racing skills.
Bruno Pezzey Bruno Pezzey (February 3, 1955 – December 31, 1994) was an Austrian footballer. He played as a sweeper for FC Wacker Innsbruck and Eintracht Frankfurt as well as Werder Bremen and at the 1978 FIFA World Cup and 1982 FIFA World Cup.
Bruno Pittermann Dr. Bruno Pittermann (born September 3 1905 in Vienna; died September 19 1983 in Vienna) was an Austrian politician and chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Austria from 1957 to 1967 and Vice Chancellor of Austria from 1957 to 1966.
Bruno Pontecorvo Bruno Pontecorvo (August 22, 1913 - September 24, 1993) was an Italian atomic physicist, an early assistant of Enrico Fermi and then the author of numerous studies in high energy physics, especially on neutrinos. He became notorious, even outside the scientific community, because of his voluntary move to the USSR in 1950, where he continued his research on the decay of the muon and on neutrinos.
Bruno Rossi Prize The Bruno Rossi Prize is awarded annually by the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society "for a significant contribution to High Energy Astrophysics, with particular emphasis on recent, original work." It is named in honor of astrophysicist Bruno Rossi.
Bruno Roy Bruno Roy is a politician in the province of New Brunswick, Canada. He was president of the Young Liberals of Canada for much of the 1990s and ran for the New Brunswick Liberal Association in the district of Dieppe Centre-Lewisville in the 2006 provincial election.
Bruno Sammartino Bruno Leopoldo Francesco Sammartino (born October 6, 1935), is a former professional wrestler, best known for being the longest-running champion of the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF), holding the title across two reigns for over 12 years in total, as well as the longest world championship reign in professional wrestling history, lasting from May 17, 1963 to January 18, 1971.
Bruno Sanfilippo Bruno Sanfilippo is an Argentinian musician, composer and multi-instrumentalist. He was born in Buenos Aires and received a professorship of music from the Galvani Conservatory at the age of 23 before moving to Barcelona, Spain in 2000.
Bruno Santos Bruno grew up with three brothers and one sister, and held many jobs since the age 12, including construction and farmwork. He was an engineering student before he became a model, and taught math as a side job during his schooling.
Bruno Schulz Bruno Schulz (July 12, 1892 – November 19, 1942) was a Polish language novelist and painter, widely considered to be one of the greatest Polish prose stylists of the 20th century. Schulz was born in Drohobycz, at the time when it was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in the province of Galicia (now Drohobych is in Ukraine) to Jewish parents.
Bruno Simma Bruno Simma (born March 29 1941), German jurist, is currently a Judge on the International Court of Justice, having been appointed to that post in 2003. Prior to joining the Court, he had served on the United Nations International Law Commission since 1996.
Bruno the Bandit Bruno the Bandit is a webcomic] drawn by [[Ian McDonald (comic author)|Ian McDonald about an incompetent bandit in a fantasy setting. The strip began on July 20 1998, and a new strip is posted every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
Bruno the Kid Bruno the Kid (1996) was a cartoon starring Bruce Willis as the voice of an 11-year old boy who becomes a top spy for a secret espionage organisation. The organisation, named 'Globe', contact Bruno via his computer and a special gadget watch, and are completely unaware of their top spy's young age as he hides behind a computer simulated avatar of a full grown man (in the image of Bruce Willis).
Bruno the Saxon Bruno the Saxon (Latin: Bruno Saxonicus) was a historian of the 11th century, author of Historia de Bello Saxonico ("History of the Saxon War"), an account of the war between Saxon noblemen and Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor.
Bruno Tesch (antifascist) Bruno Guido Camillo Tesch (22 April 1913 in Kiel – 1 August 1933 in Altona, Hamburg) was a German antifascist. In 1933, he was found guilty of murder and put to death in connection with the Altona Blood Sunday (Altonaer Blutsonntag) incident, an SA march on 17 July 1932 that turned violent and led to 18 people being shot dead.
Bruno Thériault Bruno Thériault (November 25, 1917 in Grande-Anse, New Brunswick - May 14, 2005 in Moncton, New Brunswick) was a blind piano tuner and former regional administrator for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind. He is primarily notable for having persuaded the Canadian government to incorporate raised numbers into the designs for Canadian paper money, as well as for having been the oldest active piano tuner in Canada (he tuned pianos up until a month before his death).
Bruno Walter Bruno Walter (September 15, 1876 – February 17, 1962) was a German-born conductor and composer. He was born in Berlin, but moved to several countries between 1933 and 1939, finally settling in the United States in 1939.
Bruno Zevi Bruno Zevi (born January 22nd 1918, Rome, died January 9th 2000) was an Italian organic architect, historian, professor, curator, author and editor. Zevi was a promoter of Italian Social and Organic Architecture, and a vociferous critic of 'classicising' modern architecture and postmodernism.
Bruno's Bruno's Supermarkets is an American chain of grocery stores, founded in Birmingham, Alabama. It currently operates under the corporate umbrella of Bi-Lo, LLC, which operates stores under the banners BI-LO, Bruno’s, Food World, and Food Max.
Bruno, Duke of Saxony Brun (German Braun and Latin Bruno; died 2 February 880) was a Saxon count, and possibly duke of Saxony. He was the elder son of Liudolf, progenator of the Liudolfing Dynasty and described as dux orientalis Saxonum, duke of East Saxony.
Brunoise Brunoise is a method of food preparation in which the food item is first julienned and then turned 90° and diced again, producing cubes of a side length of about 2 mm on each side or less. Common items to be brunoised are leeks and carrots.
Brunonian system of medicine The Brunonian system of medicine is a theory of medicine which regards and treats diseases as caused by defective or excessive excitation. It was developed by John Brown and is outlined in his 1780 publication Elementa Medicinae.
Brunswick and Albany Railroad Organized in 1869, the Brunswick and Albany Railroad was created to take over operation of the Brunswick and Florida Railroad which was a casualty of the civil war. Apparently the Confederate States of America took portions of the B&F rail line for use in other more strategic lines.
Brunswick and Florida Railroad The Brunswick and Florida Railroad was chartered in 1835 and was originally planned to run from several areas in Southern Georgia and Northern Florida to Brunswick, GA. By 1859, the railroad stretched from Brunswick to Glenmore, GA where it connected with the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad.
Brunswick and Pensacola Railroad The Brunswick and Pensacola Railroad was a logging line established in 1894. Owned by the Suwannee Canal Company, the railroad ran from Folkston, GA to the Suwannee Canal on the East edge of the Okefenokee Swamp near Camp Cornelia, GA.
Brunswick Centre Regularly used as a location for films, TV, photography and music videos, the Brunswick Centre is a grade II listed residential and shopping centre in Bloomsbury, Camden, London, England, located between Brunswick Square and Russell Square. It was designed by Patrick Hodgkinson in the mid 1960s and was initially planned as a private development at a time when private mixed-use development in the UK was rare.
Brunswick Corporation The Brunswick Corporation , formerly known as the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company, is a United States-based corporation that has been involved in manufacturing a wide variety of products since 1845. It had 2005 sales of $5.
Brunswick Dock The Brunswick Dock is a dock, on the River Mersey and part of the Port of Liverpool it is situated in the southern dock system, connected to Coburg Dock to the north, Toxteth Dock to the south. The dock was opened in 1832, designed by Jesse Hartley, specifically as a timber dock.
Brunswick green Brunswick green is a common name for green pigments made from copper compounds, although the name has also been used for other formulations that produce a similar hue, such as mixtures of chrome yellow and Prussian blue. The pigment is named after Braunschweig, Germany (also known as Brunswick in English) where it was first manufactured.
Brunswick High School, Maine Brunswick High School is located in Brunswick, Maine, and is one off twenty-three high schools in Cumberland County. Through the course of the town's history, Brunswick High has known three locations: first at 49 Federal Street, having been built in 1893 and rebuilt in 1915 after a fire.
Brunswick Junction, Western Australia Brunswick Junction (; post code: 6224) is a town located in the South West of Western Australia along the South Western Highway, between Harvey and Bunbury. It has a population of 1,334 (ABS 2001), about 12% of whom are Italian Australians.
Brunswick Juventus Brunswick Juventus are an Australian football (soccer) club from Brunswick, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The club was formed in 1948 as 'Juventus' by Italian migrants from an amalgamation of several smaller clubs.
Brunswick Progress Association The Brunswick Progress Association is a community organisation active in the City of Moreland Council area, and in particular the suburbs of Brunswick and Coburg, inner northern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It was first established in 1905 and celebrated its centenary of community activism in 2005.
Brunswick railway station Brunswick railway station is a railway station in Toxteth, Liverpool, England, on the Northern Line of the Merseyrail suburban system. It also serves the nearby district of Dingle and is situated on a short section of track between two tunnels, opposite Brunswick Dock.
Brunswick Railroad Museum The Brunswick Railroad Museum is a museum in Brunswick, Maryland that shows how railroads affected society in a company town, using the B&O Railroad's effect on Brunswick as an example. It is housed in a 100-year-old, 3-story brick building, with the second floor composed of historic exhibits, and the whole third floor an HO scale model railroad layout depicting the B&O Railroad's Metropolitan line (the MET) from Washington, DC to Brunswick, Maryland, in the late 1950s, as well as showing the Brunswick classification yards, which at one time were about 8 miles long.
Brunswick star The Brunswick star is an emblem which in outline is an eight-pointed or sixteen-pointed star, but which is composed of many narrow rays. It is used in Britain to surround the royal cypher on various badges, such as that worn on the caps and helmets of certain police forces.
Brunswick School (Greenwich, Connecticut) Brunswick School is a prestigious, all boys college-preparatory day-school located in Greenwich, Connecticut. The school starts at Pre-Kindergarten, includes a Lower School (grades 1-4) and a Middle School (grades 5-8), and continues through High School, or as it is called within the Brunswick Community, "Upper School", which includes grades 9-12.
Brunswick Street, Brisbane Brunswick Street is a main thoroughfare within the suburbs of New Farm and Fortitude Valley (known locally as the Valley) in Brisbane Australia. The street is not entirely roadway but is a pedestrian mall for several hundred metres near its centre.
Brunswick World: Tournament of Champions Brunswick World: Tournament of Champions is a Super Nintendo Entertainment System bowling game that engages shut-ins in the life of a league bowler. The player can play exhibition mode or league mode for all the fun of bowling in a local league without the social interaction and/or dating.
Brunt Ice Shelf The Brunt Ice Shelf () borders the Antarctic coast of Coats Land between Dawson-Lambton Glacier and Stancomb-Wills Glacier Tongue. The feature provided the site for the base of the Royal Society Expedition, 1955-59.
Bruntál Bruntál (-Czech, German: Freudenthal, Polish: Bruntal) is a city located near the western boundary of Moravian-Silesian Region. A suitable position in the middle of the Jeseníky Mountains provides an ample number of touristic opportunities to the city.
Bruntcliffe High School Bruntcliffe High School is a comprehensive secondary school in Morley, with an intake of students between 11 and 18, of both male and female gender. The school has a 'Specialist Business and Enterprise' status, with a business college for sixth form students.
Bruntsfield Hospital Bruntsfield Hospital was an Edinburgh hospital which started in 1878 as a women's dispensary ([clinic) opened by the city's first woman doctor, Sophia Jex-Blake]. It soon added some beds for in-patients, and moved from a busy, central area to the more peaceful [[Bruntsfield before the turn of the century.
Bruray Bruray is one of the three Out Skerries islands of Shetland, and is Scotland's most easterly settlement. A ferry connects the Out Skerries with Vidlin and Lerwick on the Shetland mainland, as well as flights from Tingwall by Loganair.
Bruria Hutner David Bruria Hutner David, (1936 - ) daughter of Rabbi Isaac Hutner, is the current dean of Beth Jacob Jerusalem (commonly known as BJJ), a prestigious religious girls seminary located in Jerusalem, Israel. Known as Rebbitzen David, she was on one of the planes, along with her husband and parents, which were hijacked by the Black September terrorists in 1970.
Bruse Darus Coplind Many years after his uncle's disappearance Bruse eventually gives up and returns to normal life with his wife Kathrine and his daughter Kathrina, but all the peace comes crumbling down when Kathrina starts having vivid nightmares about the same creature that made her father's uncle disappear....Inkahera!
Brush The term brush refers to a variety of devices mainly with bristles, wire or other filament of any possible material used mainly for cleaning, grooming hair, painting, deburring and other kinds of surface finishing, but also for many other purposes like (but not limited to) seals, alternative traction systems and any other use imaginable for this tool.
Brush (electric) In electrical engineering, brushes conduct current between stationary wires and moving parts, most commonly in a rotating shaft. Most importantly, in an electric motor, an alternator or electric generator, the coils of the rotor have to be connected.
Brush border A brush border (or striated border) is the name for the microvilli-covered surface of pseudostratified columnar epithelium found in multiple locations of the body. While the individual cilia can be distinguished using electron microscopes, with a light microscope they can usually only be seen collectively, as a fuzzy fringe at the surface of the epithelium.
Brush Development Company Brush Development Company's main business in 1943 was the production of piezoelectric phonograph pickups. They also produced magnetic tape sound recorders using hardened steel tape as the recording medium in cooperation with Western Electric, the manufacturing division of American Telephone and Telegraph.
Brush Engineered Materials Brush Engineered Materials Inc. is a multinational company specializing in high performance engineered materials emphasizing the qualities of strength, reliability, miniaturization and weight savings, thermal dissipation, electrical conductivity and reflectivity.
Brush fence A brush fence is a type of cross-country obstacle found on the cross-country and steeplechase] course of [[eventing, as well as in steeplechase racing courses. It consists of a solid base with brush sticking out on top.
Brush hog A Brush Hog is a heavily built rotary mower which attaches to the back of a farm tractor. It has blades that are not rigidly attached to the drive like a lawnmower blade is, but are on hinges so if the blade hits a rock or stump, it bounces backward and inward, and then centrifugal force makes it go outward again.
Brush hook A "brush hook" is a gardening instrument resembling a Axe with a long, curved blade used for clearing out heavy undergrowth from trails commonly used by survey crews or fire fighters. It can come either double or single sided It can also be referred to as a "Brush Axe".
Brush Motor Car Company Brush Motor Company based in Detroit, Michigan, was founded by Alanson P. Brush who designed a light car with wooden chassis (actually wooden rails and iron cross-members), friction drive transmission and "underslung" coil springs in tension instead of compression.
Brush painting The art of brush painting using brush and ink is of Chinese origin, but has developed extensively throughout the region. This article outlines the basic foundation, history, and techniques of this art, and then directs the reader to national schools: Chinese brush painting, Korean brush painting, Vietnamese brush painting, Japanese brush painting, and the like.
Brush Shiels Brendan "Brush" Sheils (born in 1952, in Dublin) is an Irish musician from County Cavan, best known for being frontman of Gary Moore's first band, Skid Row. Brush Shiels had a TV show on RTE called "Off yer Brush"
Brush Tunnel Brush Tunnel is a railroad tunnel in Maryland. It was originally built in 1911 by the Western Maryland Railroad, and is currently used by the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad, a tourist railroad running between Frostburg and Cumberland, Maryland.
Brush-tailed Phascogale The Brush-tailed Phascogale (Phascogale tapaotafa), also known as the Tuan, is a rat-sized, arboreal carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae, characterized by a tuft of black silky hairs on the terminal portion of its tail. It has a widespread but fragmented distribution throughout all states of Australia, excluding Tasmania.
Brushback pitch In baseball, a brushback pitch is one thrown in such a way that the batter must move back to avoid it. It differs from the beanball in that the intent is not to hit the batter, but to force him to back off the plate, and be wary for the rest of the at bat.
Brushed metal Brushed metal is metal that has been abraded ("brushed"), most often with a fine grit sandpaper. The brushing gives the metal a distinctive look, as it retains some but not all of its metallic lustre and is given a pattern of very fine lines.
Brushfield spots Brushfield spots are small white spots on the periphery of the iris in the human eye, and are a feature of Down syndrome. They are named after the physician, Thomas Brushfield, who first described them in 1924.
Brushfire Fairytales Brushfire Fairytales is the name of the 2001 debut album by Hawaiian-born singer-songwriter and filmmaker Jack Johnson. The recording achieved a moderate degree of fame for Johnson, who has stated that he never intended to pursue a career in music, already having attended university for film.
Brushfire Records Brushfire Records, a Mango Tree, Hawaii based record label owned by singer-songwriter Jack Johnson. The label, formerly known as The Moonshine Conspiracy Records was originally made to release sound tracks for Woodshed Films, a surfing movie production owned by Jack Johnson, Emmett Malloy, and Chris Malloy for Thicker Than Water.
Brushless DC electric motor A brushless DC motor (BLDC) is an AC synchronous electric motor that from a modeling perspective looks very similar to a DC motor. Sometimes the difference is explained as an electronically-controlled commutation system, instead of a mechanical commutation system, although this is misleading, as physically the two motors are completely different.
Brushy Fork Lake Brushy Fork Lake is an 18-acre impoundment on the South Branch South Fork Potomac River located three miles south of Sugar Grove in southeastern Pendleton County, West Virginia, USA. Brushy Fork Lake lies in the Dry River District of the George Washington National Forest.
Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary now renamed Brushy Mountain Correctional Complex (also called Brushy) is a large prison near the town of Petros, Tennessee, operated by the Tennessee Department of Correction. Nearly encircled by a remote section of the Cumberland Plateau, escape attempts have been infrequent and almost always unsuccessful.
Brusilov Offensive The Brusilov Offensive (Russian: Брусиловский прорыв) was the greatest Russian feat of arms during World War I, and among the most lethal battles in world history. It was a major offensive against the armies of the Central Powers on the Eastern Front, launched on June 4, 1916 and lasting until early August.
Brussels Affair Brussels Affair is a unofficial live album by the Rolling Stones. The Rolling Stones 1973 European Tour showed them in top form, particularly Mick Taylor, who played extensive solos on songs like "Midnight Rambler" and "You Can't Always Get What You Want" in an exciting interplay with Keith Richards on rhythm guitar.

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