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2 unusual facts about Walter R. Brooks


Walter R. Brooks

Walter Rollin Brooks (January 9, 1886 – August 17, 1958) was an American writer best remembered for his short stories and children's books, particularly those about Freddy the Pig and other anthropomorphic animal inhabitants of the "Bean farm" in upstate New York.

Since Brooks himself had died by the time production began on the show, as of early November of 2013, it was not known whether his estate collected royalties from its production.) His most enduring works, however, are the 26 books he wrote about Freddy the Pig and his friends.


Aaron A. Brooks

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Ahmad D. Brooks

In 1998, Ahmad signed and became a valuable member of the University of Texas football team for Coach Mack Brown’s inaugural class at UT.

Arthur Brooks

Arthur C. Brooks (born 1964), American social scientist and musician

Battle of Akroinon

Other historians however, from the early 20th-century Syriac scholar E.W. Brooks to more recent ones such as Walter Kaegi and Ralph-Johannes Lilie, have challenged this view, attributing the reduced Arab threat after Akroinon to the fact that it coincided with other heavy reversals on the most remote provinces of the Caliphate, which exhausted its overextended military resources, as well as with internal turmoil due to civil wars and the Abbasid Revolution.

C. Jay Cox

He mentioned in a 2004 interview that some of his idols are James L. Brooks, Sydney Pollack and Billy Wilder.

Circular economy

This realisation triggered the thought process of a few scientists and thinkers, including Walter R. Stahel, an architect, economist, and a founding father of industrial sustainability.

Dave Carley

He was a founder of Friends of Freddy, an association for the appreciation of the Freddy the Pig series of books of Walter Brooks.

Edwin B. Brooks

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress.

Eugene C. Brooks

He was named head of the Department of Education at Trinity College in 1907, where he served until 1919 when he was appointed state superintendent of public instruction by Governor Thomas Walter Bickett.

Ford Flivver

Ford's chief test pilot was Harry J. Brooks, a young employee who had become a favorite of Ford.

Franklin E. Brooks

He was not a candidate for renomination in 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress.

George M. Brooks

Brooks was elected as a Republican to the Forty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of George S. Boutwell.

George S. Brooks

Brooks was one of a group of 249 American soldiers—both officers and enlisted men—who briefly attended the University of Poitiers as full-time students in 1919 after having fought on the Western Front.

Half-Decent Proposal

Although the episode was written by Tim Long, the idea for the episode was pitched by series' co-creator and executive producer James L. Brooks.

Harry J. Brooks

A first attempt launched on 24 January 1928, witnessed by Henry Ford, landed short in a forced landing at Asheville, North Carolina.

Holy Cross Crusaders men's basketball

Holy Cross could have joined the newly founded Big East Conference in 1980, but college President Rev. John E. Brooks, S.J., vetoed the move for academic reasons.

Idris Muhammad

In 1966, he married Dolores "LaLa" Brooks (former member of the Crystals; she converted to Islam with him and went for a time under the name Sakinah Muhammad).

In the Courts of the Conqueror

In the Courts of the Conqueror: The 10 Worst Indian Law Cases Ever Decided is a 2010 legal non-fiction book by Walter R. Echo-Hawk, a Justice of the Supreme Court of the Pawnee Nation, an adjunct professor of law at the University of Tulsa College of Law, and of counsel with Crowe & Dunlevy.

John E. Brooks

A 2007 article in BusinessWeek suggested that "Brooks helped shape an exceptional group of overachievers", including Clarence Thomas and Edward P. Jones as chronicled in the 2012 book on the integration of Holy Cross, "Fraternity" by Diane Brady.

Kenneth Geller

From 1971 to 1972, Geller worked as Law Clerk to the Honorable Walter R. Mansfield, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Long Walk of the Navajo

They include the murder of a personal servant of Major Brooks, commander of Fort Defiance, by an arrow in the back on July 12, 1858 for the slaughter of the Navajo livestock on the grazing grounds.

Nathan C. Brooks

Poe's "Ligeia", "A Predicament" (published as "The Scythe of Time"), and "The Haunted Palace" were all originally published in Brooks' magazine.

In 1831, he was elected principal of the Franklin Academy, located in Reisterstown, Maryland.

Nathan Covington Brooks, the youngest son of John and Mary Brooks, was born in West Nottingham, Cecil County, Maryland on August 12, 1809.

NGA Pro Golf Tour

The NGA Pro Golf Tour is a private company founded by T. C. "Rick" Jordan in 1988 and later sold to Hooters restaurant chain owner Robert H. Brooks in 1994.

Peter Likins

During his administration at Lehigh, he and the Reverend John E. Brooks, S.J. of the College of the Holy Cross were the two university presidents contacted by the Ivy League in the first stage of the formation of the Patriot League during the early-1980s.

Results of the Iranian presidential election, 2009

Walter R. Mebane, Jr., performs a 2nd-digit Benford test on the ballot-box/polling station-level data.

Walter R. Mebane, Jr., identifies a relationship between the proportion of invalid ballots in a ballot box and the proportion of votes for Ahmadinejad.

Richard L. Young

On July 15, 1997, Young was nominated by President Bill Clinton to a seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana vacated by Gene E. Brooks.

Robert L. Caslen

Other generals that appeared in the video included Vincent K. Brooks and Air Force generals Peter U. Sutton and Jack J. Catton Jr.

Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards

The final round of the awards are judged by prominent writers, directors, and entertainers, who have included Moss Hart, Billy Wilder, George Stevens, Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington, Dustin Hoffman, James Brooks, David Mamet, A. Scott Berg, and David Lynch.

Stand Up and Scream

The song "Hey There Mr. Brooks" is written as a homage to the film, Mr. Brooks.

Steve Faber

Faber is writing and executive producing a film for writer/director James L. Brooks, as well as adapting the screen version of journalist A. J. Liebling's Telephone Booth Indians.

Stokely Webster

During the 1960s, he painted many portraits of his wife, Iva, as well as his daughter, Stephanie (dancer, who later married novelist Martin Brooks), and his granddaughter, Kathryn (novelist and photographer K. S. Brooks).

The Collected Poems of Freddy the Pig

The Collected Poems of Freddy the Pig (1953) is the brief 21st book in the humorous children's series Freddy the Pig written by American author Walter R. Brooks and illustrated by Kurt Wiese.

Walter McCoy

Walter R. McCoy (1880–1952), advocate of the hobby of stamp collecting

Walter Peterson

Walter R. Peterson, Jr. (1922–2011), American realtor, educator, and Republican politician from New Hampshire

Walter R. Cooney, Jr.

Cooney, who is affiliated with the Highland Road Park Observatory, has discovered more than 60 asteroids, including the 1998 identification of 11739 Baton Rouge, and he is credited with discovering more than 50 variable stars.

Walter R. Davis

He has also been awarded the William Richardson Davie Award from the UNC-Chapel Hill board of trustees, and in 2004 was the inaugural recipient of the Light on the Hill Award.

Walter R. Nickel

In 1989 when Dr. Nickel died, then-Senator Pete Wilson eulogized him on the floor of the Senate and placed his obituary in the Congressional Record.

When the University of California San Diego opened its new medical school and hospital in the 1960s, he was the founding chairman of the Division of Dermatology.

Walter R. Tucker III

He also worked with the Army Corps of Engineers to secure federal funding to repair the long neglected Compton Creek, thus eliminating the possibility of costly flood damage to the homes and property on either side of the waterway.

Tucker began his active ministry while at the Federal Prison Camp in Lompoc, California.

Will Lyons

It was while working for Justerini & Brooks in St James's street that Lyons received the opportunity to sell and taste a great many fine and rare wines particularly Bordeaux and Burgundy.

William Brooks of Blackburn

In 1792 they founded Cunliffe Brooks Bank at Blackburn but at first manufacturing was the main activity.


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