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12 unusual facts about Brewer


Brewer, Missouri

Brewer is an unincorporated community in Saline Township and northwest of Perryville, Missouri.

Brewer's Blackbird

They resemble the eastern member of the same genus, the Rusty Blackbird; however, the Brewer's Blackbird has a shorter bill and the male's head is iridescent purple.

The Brewer's Blackbird (Euphagus cyanocephalus) is a medium-sized New World blackbird, named after the ornithologist Thomas Mayo Brewer.

Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable (ISBN 978-0304350964), edited by Adrian Room, was first published in 2000.

Brewer's Rogues, Villains and Eccentrics

Some entries, such as that on George Best, reflect a certain cynicism about media-created rogues.

Brewer's Rogues, Villains and Eccentrics is a reference book first published by Brewer's in 2002 and edited and compiled by William Donaldson.

Cat and Fiddle Inn

Various etymologies are claimed: some believe it is a corruption of le chat fidèle ('the faithful cat'); others (including Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable) that it comes from 'Caton le Fidèle' (a former governor of Calais); a third theory is that it derives from 'Catherine la Fidèle' (Catherine of Aragon).

Fraser Darling effect

Since Fraser Darling's initial observation, the phenomenon has also been observed in Brewer's Blackbirds, European Herring Gulls, Black-headed Gulls, and gannets; however, other studies conducted since have not been able to confirm it in other various species of gulls.

Giboney, Missouri

Giboney was situated just west of Brewer in Saline Township in the northwest part of Perry County, situated along the south Fork Saline Creek and state route NN.

Lancelot Blackburne

The Dictionary of National Biography mentions "his reputation for carnality" and "the laxity of his moral precepts", while Brewer's Rogues, Villains and Eccentrics comments that "his behaviour was seldom of a standard to be expected of an archbishop. In many respects his behaviour was seldom of a standard to be expected of a pirate."

Silly season

and was listed in the second edition of Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1894) and remains in use at the start of the 21st century.

William Donaldson

Donaldson's biographical survey of roguish Britons through the ages, Brewer's Rogues, Villains and Eccentrics (2002), has been described as "a breathtaking triumph of misdirected scholarship".


Adam Gontier

In 2005, he went into rehabilitation at the CAMH (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health) in Toronto, where he wrote many of the songs for One-X, including "Never Too Late", which was co written by Adam's wife, Naomi Faith Brewer.

Albert Mampre

The scene where Brewer was shot and a medic trying to save him was reproduced in the fourth episode, Replacements, of the TV miniseries Band of Brothers.

Antrorbis breweri

The specific name breweri is in honor of Dr. Stephen Brewer, the owner of Manitou Cave.

Australian Stock Car Auto Racing

Other notable drivers include: Marshall J. Brewer, Terry Wyhoon, Garry Rogers, Russell Ingall, John Faulkner, Jim Richards and his son Steven, Tony Kavich, Adam Pay, Nathan Pretty and his sister Nicole, Jason Whylie, Eddie Abelnecia and Leigh Watkins (who was the only driver other than Jim Richards to win the championship driving a Falcon).

Barleyjuice

Formed originally in 1998, the group began as a side project for musicians Keith Swanson and Kyf Brewer, who met as bagpipers in the Loch Rannoch Pipes & Drums of Pineville, Pennsylvania.

Benjamin C. Truman

:for the English brewer, see Sir Benjamin Truman

Bobby Brewer

While at Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary, Brewer studied church growth under Dr. Elmer Towns, who has authored numerous books on the subject of church growth.

Charles H. Wacker

His father was Frederick Wacker, a brewer, who was born in Württemberg Germany.

Copper Coast Wines

All of the Company's boutique brewed products are produced under the strict supervision of the owner and chief brewer Richard Hasse Davis OAM, according to traditional secret family recipes and processes.

David Josiah Brewer

On March 25, 1884, Brewer was nominated by President Chester A. Arthur to the United States circuit court for the Eighth Circuit, to a seat vacated by George Washington McCrary.

Francis B. Brewer

Born in Keene, New Hampshire, Brewer was the son of Ebenezer and Julia Emerson Brewer and attended the Barnet, Vermont public schools, Newbury (Vermont) Seminary, and Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, New Hampshire.

Gale Brewer

From 1975 to 1978, Brewer served as director of scheduling for Mary Anne Krupsak, the former Lieutenant Governor of New York.

Garrett Oliver

In 1989, Oliver became an apprentice brewer at the Manhattan Brewing Company.

George Allsopp

George Higginson Allsopp (1846–1907), English brewer and Conservative Party politician

Henry Meux

Sir Henry Meux, 2nd Baronet (1817–1883), British brewer and politician, son of the above

Henry Stopes

Henry Stopes (1852 in Colchester, Essex–1902 in Greenhithe, Kent) was a brewer, architect and amateur paleontologist of repute in late 19th century London.

J. Hart Brewer

Born in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, Brewer attended the Lawrenceville schools and Trenton Academy, and graduated from the Delaware Literary Institution, Franklin, New York, in 1862.

Jalkanen

If Finnish names were used to indicate a family's original trade (as with English and German names, like Miller, Shoemaker, Brewer, Smith, etc.) then the term "foot" or "Jalka" could refer to a profession such as a cobbler or tracker.

James Squire

John Boston (who was a potential rival for Australia's first brewer); and

James Watney

On 15 October 1829, at St. Saviour's Church, Southwark (now Southwark Cathedral), James Watney married Rebecca Spurrell, elder daughter of the brewer and hop merchant James Spurrell, of Park Street, Southwark, who was employed by Barclay & Perkins's Anchor Brewery, Southwark.

Jan Albin Goetz

Jan Albin Goetz (Jan Goetz-Okocimski) (born July 18, 1864 in Okocim, Poland, died April 24, 1931 in Okocim) was a Polish brewer of German ancestry, head of Okocim Brewery, a philanthropist and patron of the arts, a "Freiherr" (baron) of the Hapsburg Empire, a conservative politician, activist and a member of the Austrian parliament and Polish sejm.

Johann Evangelist Götz

Johann Evangelist Götz (Polish: Jan Ewangelista Goetz; born November 16, 1815, Langenenslingen in the County of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, died March 14, 1893, in Brzesko, Poland) was a German-Polish brewer, the founder of the Okocim Brewery and father of Jan Albin Goetz (also known as Jan Albin Goetz-Okocimiski) and the grandfather of Antoni Jan Goetz (Antoni Jan Goetz-Okocimiski).

Kidd Brewer

His son, Pierce Oliver "Kidd" Brewer Jr., a professional diver, appeared in the James Cameron films Piranha II: The Spawning and The Abyss.

L'esule di Roma

L'esule di Roma was staged for the first time in the twentieth century on 18 July 1982 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, in a concert performance with Katia Ricciarelli, Bruce Brewer and John-Paul Bogart, on the initiative of the Donizetti Society.

Lincoln Thornton Manuscript

Derek Brewer calculated that there must have been at least six now-lost manuscripts that provided the source material for the Thornton MS, which evidences a wide "spread of manuscripts now lost." Sir Percyvelle, for instance, was originally composed in the fourteenth century in a north-east Midland dialect, and one version would have traveled north to be copied by Thornton while another traveled south to be referenced by Geoffrey Chaucer in Sir Thopas.

Lynn Brewer

Brewer co-authored an article in Business Strategy Review with noted management expert Oren Harari on leadership.

Margaret A. Brewer

Born in Durand, Michigan in 1930, Brewer received her primary education in Michigan but graduated from the Catholic High School in Baltimore, Maryland, prior to entering the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

Mark S. Brewer

Brewer was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives from Michigan's 6th District for the 45th and 46th Congresses, serving from March 4, 1877 to March 3, 1881.

Michael Bass

Michael Thomas Bass, Jr. (1799–1884), British brewer and Member of Parliament

Natalie Brewer

In October 2008, Brewer was one of four Rovers players to be sent off, the others being Katie Anderton, Jenna Carroll and Natalie Preston, as they drew 4-4 in the Women's Premier League Cup against Portsmouth Ladies.

Nicole Brewer

Before joining CBS 3, Brewer had been a feature reporter and producer for the nightly news magazine Tempo at WLVT-TV, the PBS station in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Brewer graduated from Marple Newtown Senior High School in 2001 and Millersville University of Pennsylvania in 2005, graduating magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in speech communications.

Brewer interned at WGAL-TV in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and worked as a special assignment reporter for GATV, Public, educational, and government access (PEG) community access cable television station in Greeley, Colorado.

Nicole Brewer joined CBS 3’s Eyewitness News team on April 1, 2008 as the first local TV reporter reporting primarily for a website, CBS3.COM and as a contributor to Wake Up News on The CW Philly, Vice-President and News Director Susan Schiller has announced.

Ninkasi

In ancient Mesopotamia the brewer's craft was the only profession which derived social sanction and divine protection from female deities/goddesses, specificially: Ninkasi, who covered the production of beer, Siris, who was used in a metonymic way to refer to beer, and Siduri, who covered the enjoyment of beer.

Os Guinness

Born in China, he is the great-great-great-grandson of Arthur Guinness, the Dublin brewer.

Philip Bowman

From 1985 to 1995 he worked for brewer Bass, rising to finance director, then chief executive of Bass Retail.

Pickaroon

Picaroons Traditional Ales – A New Brunswick brewer named after the common logging tool.

Pixie-bob

In the spring of 1985, Carol Ann Brewer purchased a polydactyl cat near Mount Baker, Washington, in the Cascade Mountains.

Rabbit Redux

Rabbit Redux finds the former high-school basketball star, Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, working a dead-end job (as a Linotype operator at the local printing plant) and approaching middle age in the downtrodden and fictional city of Brewer, Pennsylvania, the place of his birth.

Ringnes

The brewery was founded by brothers Amund and Ellef Ringnes (Amund was the brewer, Ellef the administrator and salesman) together with financial director Axel Heiberg.

Sidney Lawton Smith

Collections of bookplates designed, etched, and engraved by Sidney Lawton Smith are held in the Lewis Stark Bookplate Collection at the University of New Hampshire, and the William Augustus Brewer Bookplate Collection at the University of Delaware.