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2 unusual facts about Brewster's Millions


Zip Goes a Million

Zip Goes a Million is a musical with a book and lyrics by Eric Maschwitz and music by George Posford, based on the 1902 novel Brewster's Millions.

Zip is based on the 1902 novel Brewster's Millions by G. B. McCutcheon and a 1906 play adaptation of the same novel by Winchell Smith and Byron Ongly.


1995–96 Dundee United F.C. season

Robbie Winters scored in a 1–1 draw with St. Mirren at Love Street before Maurice Malpas and Craig Brewster scored as United lost 3–2 to Dundee at Tannadice.

2007 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team

On January 15, 2007 it was reported on ESPN.com that Tim Brewster was the choice of University of Minnesota athletic director Joel Maturi to replace Glen Mason as the Gophers head coach.

All Saints' Church, Babworth

Brewster and Bradford were both passengers aboard The Mayflower.

Amidon, North Dakota

When the 2010 census reported its population as 20 it became the second-smallest incorporated county seat after Brewster, Nebraska, population 17.

Billy Van Arsdale

William Brewster 'Billy' Van Arsdale III is a fictional character in Mark Winegardner's novel The Godfather Returns.

Brewster Homestead

The Brewster Homestead at 306 Preston Rd. in Griswold, Connecticut is a historic house including Colonial and Federal architecture.

Brewster-Douglass Housing Projects

Hastings Street was most famously referenced in the John Lee Hooker song, "Boogie Chillen'".

Brewster–Sanford Expedition

1914 saw the Becks working their way southwards along the Chilean coast to the Chiloé Archipelago and then, in July, to Magallanes Province.

Ramifications of the outbreak of war in Europe caused some difficulties for the Becks, but in August 1914 they visited the Falkland Islands and then moved to Mar del Plata, Argentina, where they were based until November.

Brewster, Ohio

Brewster is the headquarters for Shearer's Foods, makers of Shearer’s potato chips and snacks, and Brewster Dairy, the largest Swiss cheese plant in the US.

Brewster, Washington

In 1811, John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company established Fort Okanogan just north of the present site of Brewster, which was the first American post in Washington.

The radio telescope located in Brewster is the northernmost of ten dishes comprising the Very Long Baseline Array.

Carthage, South Dakota

Carthage is located exactly where Laura Ingalls Wilder described the "Brewster Settlement", the site where she taught her first school, in her novel These Happy Golden Years.

Catherine Clark Kroeger

In their latter years they resided on Cape Cod in Brewster, Massachusetts.

Charles Upham Shepard

Meanwhile for a year he was curator of Franklin Hall, an institution that was established by James Brewster in New Haven, Connecticut, for popular lectures on scientific subjects to mechanics.

Charlie Chalk

The UK based restaurant chain Brewers Fayre originally used Charlie Chalk as their mascot, but this image has since changed to the firm's own 'Brewster the Bear' who has nowadays been replaced with new kids character called 'Penny the Pineapple'.

Chaylon Brewster

Brewster was again asked to make a whole new beat for the track, and then Guinness Book record holder D.O. and Derrty Ent's Prentiss Church were included in the track alongside Brockway Biggs.

Brewster was born on May 6, 1982 in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia where he lived for the first 12 years of his life later moving to Kingsville, Ontario, a suburb of Windsor, Ontario where he gained most of his exposure to the Hip Hop scene.

Daniel Brewster

On April 29, 1967, Brewster married Anne Moen Bullitt Biddle (1924–2007) at Glyndon, Maryland.

Daniel Drew

On the one hand, Drew, a devout Methodist, built churches in Carmel and Brewster, New York, contributed to the founding of Drew Theological Seminary in Madison, New Jersey, which is now part of Drew University, and Drew Seminary for Young Ladies in his home town of Carmel.

David P. Brewster

Elected as a Democrat, Brewster was United States Representative for the seventeenth district of New York during the Twenty-sixth as well as the Twenty-seventh Congresses and served from March 4, 1839 to March 3, 1843.

Eastham, Massachusetts

Eastham is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as a part of the Fourth Barnstable district, which includes (with the exception of Brewster) all the towns east and north of Harwich on the Cape.

Gerald Lyda

Today, sons Gerald D. and Gene Lyda, along with their sister Jo Granberg, manage the 320,000 deeded acres (1400 km²) La Escalera Ranch, which spreads across four Texas counties: Reeves, Pecos, Brewster, Archer, and Baylor.

Goebel Brewing Company

In the John Bellairs book The Trolley to Yesterday and its eventual sequel The Wrath of the Grinning Ghost, the character of Brewster (really Horus, a god of Upper and Lower Egypt) is given his name because he bears a resemblance to Brewster Rooster.

Gregory Douglass

His roles included "Hero" in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, alongside actor Topher Grace who played "Pseudolus", while attending Brewster Academy.

James C. Brewster

On December 31, 1850, Brewster and some his followers are listed in the 1850 United States Census at Socorro, New Mexico Territory.

John A. Degnan

Upon taking office, Degnan helped lead Team Brewster which while Degnan was still a village trustee, had commissioned his sister, a member of the Urban Planning Department of Columbia University's School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation to develop a master plan for the Brewster's revitalization.

Julius Brewster Cotton

Julius Brewster began his professional dance career in Ohio with the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company after graduating from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, in 2000.

Lincoln Brewster

Brewster's second album, Live to Worship (produced by Jeff Quimby and co-produced by Brewster), was released in 2000.

Madigan's Millions

It stars Dustin Hoffman, in his first movie role, as Jason Fister, a young U.S. Treasury Dept. official sent to Rome to recover a large sum of money owed to the United States government by a deceased mobster.

Michèle Stephenson

In 1999, Brewster and Stephenson set out to document the experiences of their son and his best friend from the time both boys entered kindergarten at a private Manhattan prep school through their upcoming high school graduation in 2012 in the documentary film, American Promise.

Old Southeast Town Hall

Brewster and the area around it grew substantially in the years after the Civil War due to the construction of the New York and Harlem Railroad.

Rachael Crawford

Rachael Crawford (born c. 1969 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is an actress best known for her roles in Brewster Place, Here and Now, and Show Me Yours, as well as guest appearances on various television series such as Cold Squad, Crossing Jordan, and more recently The Firm and Suits.

Ragged Dick

Alger had been serving as a Unitarian minister in Brewster, Massachusetts for about a year and a half when a church committee charged him with pederasty.

Robins Island

When his property was put up for sale, it was purchased in 1784 by Caleb Brewster and Benjamin Tallmadge, who had been members of the Culper Spy Ring during the American Revolutionary War.

Rudi M. Brewster

Rudi M. Brewster (1932-2012) was a United States Federal Judge, best known for 2006 ruling in a patent infringements suit against Microsoft tied to the licensing of the MP3 format.

Sam Chauncey

Chauncey did likewise for Brewster, with R. Inslee Clark, Jr., much as his father did for Conant in recruiting and admitting incoming classes more diverse and academically able than their predecessors.

Samuel F. Snively

At the time, Brewster was the United States Attorney General in the cabinet of Chester A. Arthur.

Shit on You

The video was shot on location in Detroit, the group performing in various locations around their home city, such as Fox Theatre, Brewster-Douglass Housing Projects, the Joe Louis Memorial, Michigan Central Station, Comerica Park, and Runyon Avenue.

Sing, Baby, Sing

When she insists that he represent her, he takes her to Mr. Brewster (Paul Stanton), president of the Federal Broadcasting Company, and Joan auditions, but Brewster refuses to hire her because she is not of the upper class.

Surf Reality

Most recently, Surf Reality produced 64 Paintings/64 Plays, a multimedia collaboration between playwright Timothy Braun, painter Jennilie Brewster, sound artist Tom Tenney, and animator Ashleigh Nankivell.

Surface plasmon resonance

This method provides a high contrast of the images based on the adsorbed amount of molecules, somewhat similar to Brewster angle microscopy (this latter is most commonly used together with a Langmuir–Blodgett trough).

The Ape Man

Dr. James Brewster (Bela Lugosi) and his colleague Dr. Randall (Henry Hall) are involved in a series of scientific experiments which have caused him to transform into an ape-man.

The Dining Room

# 1st Actor: Remak Ramsay - Father, Michael, Brewster, Grandfather, Stuart, Gordon, David, Harvey and Host

Three Rivers Hospital

Three Rivers Hospital is a hospital based in Brewster, Washington, USA, which is a city that is part of the Okanogan region.

William Brockie

Whilst serving his articles he frequently had the delight of meeting Sir Walter Scott, and many of the local characters who appeared in the Waverley Novels, in addition to Sir David Brewster, then living at Gattonside, James Hogg, better known as "The Ettrick Shepherd", and many other of Scott's personal friends.


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