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unusual facts about S. G. Browne


Fated

Fated (book) - the second published novel by San Francisco author S. G. Browne, published in November 2010.


Christopher H. Browne

He has donated $25 million to establish several endowed professorships at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a trustee, including the professorships held by Amy Gutmann and Rogers Smith.

George H. Browne

Browne was elected as a candidate of the Democratic and Constitutional Union Parties to the Thirty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1863).

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth Congress.

John C. Browne

During Browne's tenure, the Wen Ho Lee spy investigation by the FBI erupted onto the national scene, particularly after release of the Cox Report by the US House of Representatives in 1999.

Peshawar Valley Field Force

Sir Samuel J. Browne (Overall Command of the Peshawar Valley Field Force)

The Peshawar Valley Field Force was a British field force of around 12,000 men, a mix of both British regiments and Indian regiments, under the command of Sir Samuel J. Browne during the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1880).

Thomas C. Browne

He was elected to the Legislature of the Illinois Territory in 1814 as a representative of Gallatin County, and again in 1816 as a member of the Legislative Council.

Thomas H. B. Browne

Two years later he was re-elected to the 51st Congress, but in 1890 was unsuccessful in his re-election bid.

In 1886 he was elected as a Republican to represent Virginia's first congressional district in the 50th United States Congress.

Thomas M. Browne

He served as chairman of the Committee on Invalid Pensions (Forty-seventh Congress), Committee on Revision of the Laws (Fifty-first Congress).

Browne was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1891).

William A. F. Browne

Browne is now regarded as an important influence - along with Robert Grant - on the young Charles Darwin as a medical student in Edinburgh in 1826/1827.



In 1839, Browne had initiated one of the first collections of art by mental patients in institutions, gathering a large amount of work which he had bound into three volumes, in many ways a forerunner of Hans Prinzhorn's Artistry of the Mentally Ill and the academic study of outsider art (art brut).

William D. Browne

In 2000, "Test of Courage" a biography of former CIC Agent Michel Thomas gave an account of his rescue of the files in May 1945.

William F. Browne

Soon afterward, he began working as the camp photographer of the 5th Michigan Cavalry, staying with them in their winter encampment at Stevensburg, Virginia.


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