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2 unusual facts about Brunner's glands


Brunner's glands

They are the distinguishing feature of the duodenum, and are named for the Swiss physician who first described them, Johann Conrad Brunner.

Johann Conrad Brunner

in 1687 he described tubuloalveolar glands in the submucous layer of the duodenum, which were later named Brunner's glands.


Bob Brunner

Notably, Brunner contributed to American popular culture by creating the nickname "Fonzie" for Henry Winkler's iconic character, Arthur Fonzarelli, who was originally just a minor player on the show.

Clarabell the Clown

In season 2, #33 of Happy Days, Richie Cunningham is able to get a candid shot of Clarabell (Robert Brunner) without his makeup, but chooses to destroy it.

Constantin Brunner

According to Brunner, the authentic philosophy presented by Spinoza has its antithesis in scholasticism which reaches its highest expression in Immanuel Kant.

Didier Brunner

In 1987, Brunner founded Trans-Europe Film, in which he produced animated productions such as Michel Ocelot's Tales of the Night.

Disraelis

In collaboration with Hofmann and the Lutheran pastor Wolfgang Breithaupt from Weitenhagen/Germany and with the support of many donors, a vacational stay was made possible in the summer of 2002: Accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Brunner, 18 young Israelis came to the church meeting center Haus der Stille (House of Silence) in Weitenhagen near Greifswald/Germany.

Emil Brunner

He studied at the universities of Zurich and Berlin, receiving his doctorate in theology from Zurich in 1913, with a dissertation on The Symbolic Element in Religious Knowledge. Brunner served as pastor from 1916 to 1924 in the mountain village of Obstalden in the Swiss Canton of Glarus.

Fedir Manailo

Manailo studied at the Art and Technical School in Prague with Brunner.

Liz Brunner

After five years in Tampa, Brunner was hired by WCVB-TV, Channel 5, the ABC affiliate in Boston, as correspondent and fill-in anchor for the award winning, nighly news magazine show, Chronicle.

Luise Brunner

From July 2 to 21, 1948, in the Seventh Ravensbrück Trial, Brunner was tried on charges of mistreatment of inmates of Allied nationality and participation in the selection of inmates for the gas chamber.

Luise Brunner was the chief oberaufseherin (chief guard) of Ravensbrück concentration camp from December 1944 to April 1945.

Michelle Brunner

Born in London, Brunner attended the Henrietta Barnett School in Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, where she learnt and practised her bridge playing skills during her sixth form years.

Miss Brunner

She was played by Jenny Runacre in the movie The Final Programme, which was loosely based on Moorcock's novel of the same name, at the end of which Miss Brunner and Cornelius are physically merged into a single hermaphroditic being.

Monitum

On June 29, 2002, Romulo Antonio Braschi, the founder of a schismatic community, attempted to confer priestly ordination on the following Catholic women : Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger, Adelinde Theresia Roitinger, Gisela Forster, Iris Müller, Ida Raming, Pia Brunner and Angela White.

Museum Europäischer Kulturen

The private Museum for German Traditional Costume and Handicrafts, with the support of the Patron James Simon (1851-1932, from 1904 President of the Museum’s Association) and under the leadership of Karl Brunner (1904-1928), was in 1904 made part of the “Königliche Sammlung für Deutsche Volkskunde” (Royal Collection for German Folklore), part of the Königlich Preußischen Museen zu Berlin.

Otto Brunner

Brunner, along with historians like Karl Bosl, Walter Schlesinger, Theodor Schieder and Werner Conze—all of whom supported, or were openly sympathetic to, Nazism in one way or another before and during the war (though more as nationalists than outright fascists) -- dominated the theory and teaching of medieval social history in post-war Germany and Austria.

Sarah Steelman

Steelman faced U.S. 2nd district Congressman Todd Akin and St. Louis businessman John Brunner in the August 2012 primary.

Statue of Ludwig Mond

After Mond's death the directors of Brunner Mond and Company commissioned Édouard Lantéri to design a statue.

Timescoop

The novel expresses Brunner in a lighter mode than other novels of the period such as Stand on Zanzibar and The Sheep Look Up.

Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects

Williams and Tsien are the recipients of the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Medal of Honor from the New York City chapter of the American Institute of Architects, and the Chrysler Design Award (1998).

Tommy Brunner

Tommy Brunner (born 1970 in Innsbruck; died 21 April 2006 in Bella Coola, British Columbia, Canada) was an Austrian big mountain snowboarding legend.

U-Drop Inn

In 1957, John Nunn died and his wife Bebe sold the café to Grace Brunner who again renamed it, this time to Tower Café, and added a Greyhound bus station.


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