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6 unusual facts about Brenner


Brennersee

The lake Brennersee lies approximately 1.15 km north of the Brenner Pass, 1310 metres above sea level.

Gschnitz

In 1471 the rivalry between Gschnitz and Trins arisen and reached a point that the inhabitants of the two villages blocked the entrance to the valley; the Steinach am Brenner Court had to intervene to redeem the dispute.

Gschnitz originally belonged, like most of the villages of Wipptal, to the parish of Matrei am Brenner.

Gschnitz is placed at the end of the valley of the same name which branches off from the Wipptal at Steinach am Brenner.

Hermann Burger

Brenner (volume 1 published in 1989; volume 2 published posthumously in 1992)

Obernberger See

Lake Obernberg (German: Obernberger See) lies at an elevation of 1,590 metres in the valley with the same name near the Brenner Alps.


ArenaBowl XI

In the first quarter, the Rattlers slithered first with Kicker Anthony Brenner getting a 19-yard Field Goal, yet the Barnstormers responded with Quarterback Kurt Warner completing a 30-yard touchdown pass to OS Lamont Cooper.

Bavarian Pt 2/3

This locomotive, which was then displayed at Pöchlarn station was reactivated in 1997 and, since 1999, has headed specials for the Brenner & Brenner Steam Locomotive Company (Brenner & Brenner Dampflokomotiven Betriebsgesellschaft).

Bolzano/Bozen railway station

The station was opened on 16 May 1859, upon the opening of the Trento-Bolzano/Bozen portion of the first stage of the Brenner railway from Verona.

In 1864, construction began on the final section of the Brenner railway, between Bozen and Innsbruck.

Brenner Pass

The Europabrücke (Europe Bridge), located just outside of Innsbruck and a few km north of the Brenner Pass, is a large concrete bridge carrying the six-lane autobahn over the valley of the Sill River.

Counterfeit for Murder

The series of black-and-white telemovies stars Tino Buazzelli (Nero Wolfe), Paolo Ferrari (Archie Goodwin), Pupo De Luca (Fritz Brenner), Renzo Palmer (Inspector Cramer), Roberto Pistone (Saul Panzer), Mario Righetti (Orrie Cather) and Gianfranco Varetto (Fred Durkin).

Crack Comics

Cartoonist George Brenner became editor of Crack Comics with issue #31 (Oct. 1943) (Cronin having left the post in Feb. 1942), a few issues before Brenner's character The Clock stopped appearing in the book's pages.

David A. Hodell

In 1995, Hodell, Curtis and Brenner published a paleoclimate record from Lake Chichancanab on the Yucatán Peninsula that showed an intense, protracted drought occurred in the 9th century AD and coincided with the Classic Maya collapse.

David Brenner

He also played a charity ball auctioneer in the 1989 romantic comedy Worth Winning (with Mark Harmon, Madeleine Stowe, and Lesley Ann Warren, who was also Brenner's co-star on Snip).

DC Showcase: The Spectre

Los Angeles Police Department Detective Jim Corrigan, who was having a relationship with Brenner's daughter Aimee, starts investigating despite the case having been assigned to another officer.

If You Didn't Laugh, You'd Cry

Basic tracking for this, Marah's fifth studio release, began with departing band members Jon Wurster on drums and Mike "Slo-Mo" Brenner on dobro, bass, and electric guitar, and finished with new members Dave Petersen on drums and Adam Garbinski (both formerly of the band Squad Five-O) on electric guitar.

Intertech

key people = Thomas Salonek, CEO/President
Ryan McCabe, Vice President and Director of Consulting Sales
David Brenner, Director of Finance and Accounting
James White, Director of Training
Andrew Troelson, Director of Technology

Maciej Stuhr

Among others, he is known for his role of Kuba Brenner in Chłopaki nie płaczą and Piotr in Krzysztof Kieslowski's Decalogue X.

Menachem Brenner

Brenner has served as a consultant to leading stock exchanges, banks, and other financial institutions, including American Stock Exchange, Athens Derivatives Exchange, SOFFEX, Bombay Stock Exchange, Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange, Bank of Israel, Israel Securities Authority, and Quick Corp.

Olaus Magnus

It included a map of Northern Europe with a map of Scandinavia, which was rediscovered by Oscar Brenner in 1886 in the München state library and shown to be the most accurate depiction of its time.

Rebecca Wight

Rebecca Wight -- a student, of Iranian and Puerto Rican heritage, who was working on her Master's Degree in Business Administration -- and 32-year-old Claudia Brenner -- a Jewish, Manhattan-born architecture student -- were partners for two years, after meeting over breakfast while both were students at Virginia Tech.

Sin Takes a Holiday

As a plain, poor secretary, sharing an apartment with her friend, Anne (Zasu Pitts), Sylvia Brenner (Constance Bennett) accepts her boss's marriage proposal, even though it's only so he can avoid being dragged into court, with another woman's divorce.

Plain, poor secretary Sylvia Brenner (Constance Bennett) is secretly in love with her philandering boss, Gaylord Stanton (Kenneth MacKenna).

Sophia Elisabet Brenner

In 1680, she married the miniaturist painter Elias Brenner and became the first Swedish salon hostess; in her salon, there gathered the Swedish elite such as Aurora Königsmarck, the painter Anna Maria Ehrenstrahl, the poet Johan Runius and Urban Hjärne (who brought to an end the legal persecution of witches).

Steinach am Brenner

Heinrich Messner (* September 1, 1939, Steinach am Brenner), Alpine skier.

The Golden Spiders

Other members of the principal cast of The Golden Spiders who would continue in the A&E series A Nero Wolfe Mystery include Bill Smitrovich (Inspector Cramer), Colin Fox (Fritz Brenner), Fulvio Cecere (Fred Durkin), R.D. Reid (Sergeant Purley Stebbins) and Trent McMullen (Orrie Cather).

Trentino Tyrolean People's Party

ASAR, whose slogan was "integral autonomy from Borghetto to Brenner", was a group which fought successfully for the establishment of the Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol as special statute Region.

Ultrix

Absolutely key to bringing Unix to inside the company, DEC's Unix Engineering Group (UEG) was started by Bill Munson with Jerry Brenner and Fred Canter, both from DEC's premier Customer Service Engineering group, Bill Shannon (from Case Western Reserve University), and Armando Stettner (from Bell Labs).

Up Country

Paramount Pictures, the motion-picture studio that was responsible for the 1999 film adaptation The General's Daughter, likewise bought the rights to Up Country, with actor John Travolta slated to return as Brenner.

Walter Brenner

When he completed his service in the military, Brenner attended the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn where he earned his Master's degree (1949) and later his doctorate (1954) in chemical engineering studying under the renowned Donald Othmer.

Yosef Haim Brenner

Brenner lived in an apartment in Whitechapel, which doubled as an office for HaMe'orer, a Hebrew periodical that he edited and published in 1906–07.

Zuhause im Glück – Unser Einzug in ein neues Leben

In 2009 Eva Brenner and John Kosmalla were supported by Natalie Nguyen-Ton, Christopher Brenner and Daniel Kraft, as well as by a new craftsmen team.


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