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10 unusual facts about Brookhaven


Brookhaven, Fresno, California

The neighborhood has long been associated with crime and gang activity, and was generally referred to as the "Dogg Pound" - in reference to the Dogg Pound Crips Gang that claims the neighborhood - by local residents until recent efforts by the community and the city government to change the neighborhood's image.

Brookhaven, Mississippi

Charles Henri Ford, American poet, novelist, filmmaker, photographer, and collage artist.

Brookhaven, Pennsylvania

Thomas Brassey was granted 385 acres (1.6 km²) in 1684.

Christopher Rheinlander Robert

Christopher Rheinlander Robert (Brookhaven, Long Island, New York, 23 March 1802, Paris, France, 28 October 1878) was an American philanthropist and co-founder of Robert College later known as Boğaziçi University.

David H. Frisch

Frisch served on the Physics Advisory Committee of the National Science Foundation, on the Brookhaven High Energy Advisory Committee, and was chairman of the Long-Range Planning committee of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

Mark Lesko

As Supervisor, Lesko made it a priority to take the politics out of Brookhaven government.

In 2009, Lesko was the Democratic candidate for the open Brookhaven Town Supervisor position, which was vacated by Democrat Brian X. Foley.

Lesko served as Deputy Chief of the Long Island Criminal Division, where he ran the U.S. Attorney's Office on Long Island leading all federal investigations and prosecutions in Brookhaven.

René Turlay

From 1962 to 1964 he played a major role in all phases of the memorable experiment at Brookhaven's accelerator where the CP violation phenomenon in weak interactions was discovered.

Tea production in the United States

FiLoLi Farms in Brookhaven, Mississippi has started tea cultivation and will be marketing soon.


A Pail of Air

They reveal that other groups of humans have survived at Argonne, Brookhaven, and Harwell nuclear research facilities as well as in Tanna Tuva, and that plans are being made to establish uranium mining colonies at Great Slave Lake or in the Congo region.

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Brookhaven is also responsible for the design of the SNS accumulator ring in partnership with Spallation Neutron Source in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Centralia, Illinois

Amtrak Train 59, the southbound City of New Orleans, is scheduled to depart Centralia at 12:25am daily with service to Carbondale, Fulton, Newbern-Dyersburg, Memphis, Greenwood, Yazoo City, Jackson, Hazlehurst, Brookhaven, McComb, Hammond, and New Orleans.

Nanotextured Surfaces

A research published online October 21, 2013, in Advanced Materials, of a group of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, led by Brookhaven physicist and lead author Antonio Checco, proposed that nanotexturing surfaces in the form of cones produces extremely water-repellent surfaces.

Sag Harbor Branch

A small portion of the right of way runs through what is today the Long Island Game Farm, while another segment runs through a Town of Brookhaven compost facility.

Stephen Schwartz

Stephen E. Schwartz (born 1941), atmospheric scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory